The article version of this post was published by Chowk [http://www.chowk.com/articles/age-of-obama-beginning-of-the-end-of-racism-akber-choudhry.htm] . Almost a year after Obama’s historic election, the strange wave of euphoria that swept around the world is finally morphing into some long-awaited rational discourse. What was it at the time? What

It is without doubt that without the rule of law (judicially enforced or socially enforced), human society would not exist. It is also a fact that most of the man-made law of this world owes itself to religious laws in one way or another. Laws against stealing, cannibalism, rape, incest,