An article by Ehsan Siddiqui 25th May 2020, in Minneapolis of Minnesota state in the USA a negro-man named George Floyd became prey to the history of police brutality and racial discrimination in the country. A policeman was captured on video pressing his knee against Floyd's neck who was laying on the ground motionless for a duration of around 9 minutes. the last words of the dying man on the ground "I Can't Breathe" sparked a worldwide movement against the oppression on racial grounds, hundreds of thousands of people took to streets of not only America but a number of other countries as well. However, this was not it various social medial platforms like twitter, Facebook and Instagram were also stormed by a flood of millions of posts supporting the cause. "Black lives matter" movement is not a standalone case in which people took the help of social media to express their dissent. A few months back in India also social media was widely used to oppose...
Sadhvi Pragya, a member of parliament from Bhopal, while ago in a media interaction said Nathuram Godse; the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi was a patriot. This ignited a huge nationwide controversy causing the Prime minister to say that he'll never be able to forgive Pragya. Despite this, every day we hear influential leaders from political parties having their share of ridiculous and absurd statements. Is this just the meaningless blabber of extremist leaders or is something dangerous? The new normal What if I had told you a couple of decades ago that in this very country, the killing of Mahatma Gandhi will be celebrated, or a union minister would honor the murder accused with garlands, or someone with terrorism charges will become a member of parliament? All this would have seemed a little too far-fetched but as of now all the aforementioned has already happened and most of the nation's population appears to be fine with it. Today you hear political l...