After weeks of violent persecution of African-Americans in the United States, the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement to expose the inequalities of race within America. In a similar fashion, 65 years later in 2020, events involving the killing of Breonna Tyler, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, have propelled the fight against racism just as strongly. All these events, mixed with COVID-19 revealing how racial inequality impacts health and earning, sparked outrage, and led to riots breaking out across the United States. By the second day of the protests, May 27th, protestors looted a Target store in Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis. The video of the event went viral, and had mixed reactions: some applauded it as being a sign of anti-capitalist sentiment, while others said it was aimless, and only hurt the movement, and society. While many grieved the conditions of African-Americans, others grieved their favourite retailers, and shoppin
After the split of the subcontinent in August 1947, almost 5 million Hindus and Sikhs migrated from Pakistan to India, and 12.9% of the Pakistani population consisted of Hindus. By 2018, the number had come down to 1.6% and is sadly constantly reducing. According to politician Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, 5,000 Hindus migrate from Pakistan to India every year, and the Hindu community now openly asks the question: “Are we not a part of Pakistan?” It is odd to think that the second largest religious community in Pakistan would feel a strong sense of disassociation with the country that it resides in. The truth, however, is that—in almost 72 years—Hindus have not been able to comfortably live in Pakistan. In fact, the community has often had to face an identity crisis, with individuals not being able to even use their full names. According to a prominent Hindu social worker, Sawai Malhi, the majority of the Pakistani population is not even aware that a Hindu community exists. This