Life in shackles; Debt bondage blights the Hindu community on January 29, 2021In an unfortunate intersection of marginalization the low-caste Hindus find themselves struggling without salvation in sight. These scheduled castes – often the Kolhi and Bheel tribes, are settled in areas of Sindh such as Laar and Tharparkar. Entire families are stuck in the system of bonded labour. These Hindus work on the agricultural acres for […]
Plight of Hindu women vendors of Empress market on December 28, 2020The lockdown imposed by the Government of Sindh during the first wave of Covid-19 had a negative impact on the financial state of the region. Micro-enterprises owned by Hindu women in Karachi (the metropolitan city of Pakistan) were deeply affected. The intersectional measure of marginalization these women vendors from the Hindu community faced only worsened […]