Nepal, July 16 -- Today I'm going to talk about the response to George Floyd protests that spread over more than 700 American cities and how the institutional world has responded to the protests-and what it means for Nepal and South Asia in general. George Floyd's killing at the hands of four Minneapolis police offers provoked probably the largest protest so far in the United States.

The Black Lives Matter movement was born in 2013 as a social media hashtag movement after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who had killed a black man named Trayvon Martin in Florida. But the movement really took off and spread as protests in many American cities after the killing by the police in Ferguson near St Louis, Missouri, and the killing by the pol...