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Perspective

A week ago, while we celebrated our “fake” graduation and took pictures with our friends and got nostalgic over the last couple years of high school, an 8-year old’s family was fighting for justice against a failed judiciary system that’s overrun by politics. It’s important to put things into perspective. While I don’t normally write such blog posts and usually tend to indulge in my domain of creative writing, I believe this was one such occasion where I felt the need to speak up and put my freedom of speech to a better use. Sure, you can argue that this blog post is not actually going to help Asifa Bano and her family, because even though millions have signed petitions after petitions and organised protests after protests across the country, the Supreme Court of India fails to declare a verdict on this horrendous incident.           What I find unbelievably shocking is how politics is the actual cause of this heinous crime, where the perpetrators are yet to f