South Asian people have been organizing in Chicago for years—now, two are running for alderperson in the February 28 election. | ✍️ Ankur Singh
. The impact South Asians have made in Chicago can be seen, literally, from anywhere in the city. One only has to look up at the skyline and see the Willis and Hancock towers. Both were designed by Fazlur Rahman Khan, an immigrant from Bangladesh. The mile-long strip along Devon Avenue with its countless shops, restaurants, clothing, and jewelry stores has been nicknamed Little India.
Over a cup of chai at Spinzer, a Pakistani fast-food restaurant on Devon, Bawany said the city’s budget reflects “a lack of moral imagination. So for me personally it doesn’t stop me from imagining what can happen.” And then he threw a curveball: he loves Levinson’s Bakery, which is located right next to Anmol. “Everybody jokes that this is the future liberals want,” he said.”It’s like, man, you got the Jewish bakery and then some Desi folks making really good meals side by side.”
Bawany echoed that sentiment. “I think what the Sikh community, the Muslim community, the Hindu community, there’s so much in our faith-based traditions about service, right?” he said. “Understanding the importance of feeding people, of sheltering people . . . we can fundraise a lot, but imagine wielding the budget of the city of Chicago to address inequity.”
Building solidarity both within and outside the South Asian community is central to the mission of Chicago Desi Youth Rising , a collective that works to educate and organize young South Asians across the Chicagoland area in an effort to have youth leadership at the center of larger fights for social, economic, and racial justice in Chicago.
Bawany was six years old the first time his family was evicted from their apartment. The family came home to find all their belongings sprawled out on the lawn. His family was evicted two more times throughout his childhood. After the third time, Bawany’s two older brothers started working to help the family make ends meet. One brother began selling shirts on the south side. The other was working in IT while their mother sold samosas and pursued catering gigs and their father worked as a taxi driver.
“The story of my father and my mother and their struggles in the ward exists all throughout this neighborhood,” he said.Treatment Not Trauma Members of the cabin crew were able to warn the airplane’s pilots of the hijacking, who then escaped and left the plane grounded. The hijacking, which lasted nearly 16 hours, ended with a mass shooting that killed about 20 people and injured over 100.“We survived and we came home and we just pretended like nothing happened,” she said. “That was the advice my parents were given.
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