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Lynching and aftermath: American Style versus Indian Style

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Murder of black American evokes the National Conscience, triggers the movement, Black lives matter that spreads across its border, unlike dreaded silence that followed equally heinous lynching in the country-an Indian style Yesterday (2 nd June, 2020), while watching NDTV, I came to know of National  Lynching Memorial at downtown Montgomery in Alabama. Some visuals of black stone sculptures depicting beating of black men, women and children were good enough to indicate what kind of atrocities these people suffered at the hand of white man. These were terrible enough to prick my conscience that such barbaric acts were carried out in that highly developed civilized country. And the reason for it is just because someone is borne black to deserve lifetime punishment and other borne white to be a master. This NDTV news was to build up the story to relate to the recent (25 th May) killing of George Floyd, black American. It is alleged that he possessed $20 fake bill and was trying to cash