Juhu Beach, 1976.
More Goa than Mumbai. Calm, unhurried, and clean.
A different rhythm by the sea. Listen to the narrator say, “Bombay has some of the finest beaches in India.”
#OldMumbai
The Pakistani media, controlled by the Punjabi establishment, is largely silent. Journalists, intellectuals, civil society activists and rights activists are mostly silenced.
No one show you these videos
As recently as 80 years ago in Mecca —
the birthplace of Islam in Saudi Arabia —
Arabs were still eating lizards and living in mud huts.
This shows how primitive and underdeveloped the region remained for centuries.
Imagine what life was like there 1,400 years ago at the dawn of Islam.
#saudiArabia #islam
A 28-year-old Hindu doctor, Dr. Akash Kumar, was shot dead by Muslims in Karachi.
He was with his father and his cousin. According to the family, even after the attackers got the money, they opened fire, shooting him multiple times in the chest.
The part I cannot stop thinking about is what came next.
His father lifted the lifeless body of his own son in his arms.
No parent should ever have to carry the child they once carried as a baby. No father should have to bury the son he dreamed would one day bury him.
This happened in broad daylight, around noon, in an area reportedly covered by hundreds of surveillance cameras and under constant police presence.
For many Pakistani Hindu refugees living in India, this is the deepest wound. They escaped, but many of their parents, siblings, cousins and childhood friends could not. Every few weeks, another call comes. Another name is gone. Another family is shattered.
Thousands of Pakistani Hindus still want to leave but many remain trapped because obtaining the documents needed to migrate is often extremely difficult. Pakistan doesn’t give many Hindus passports, and without a passport they cannot get Indian visas to migrate. Pakistan has kept them as hostages.
When the victim is a Hindu, the silence from much of the world is often impossible to ignore.
One more young life. One more grieving father. One more family that will never be whole again.