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WILL A US HAPPEN IN INDIA

WILL A US HAPPEN IN INDIA? It just took a spark in the US to get people , lakhs of them, onto the streets protesting. In almost all cities. Imagine one black man killed as compared to a lakh killed due to corona!!  Disproportionate response, is't? Why did this take place ? Why did the people  abandon  all  the corona fears and, without following social distancing norms, mingle freely and then violently protest. Anger spilling over like never before. Surely, the lockdown ,with its accompanying  loss of jobs and businesses , inadequate response by authority etc may have bottled up the anger and frustration. But that alone does not lead to a tinder box  like situation.  Racial tension has existed in the US for ages and  that too cannot , on its own, lead to a flash point. So what could be the underlying  factor that lead to this flash point, of this ignition. Lets look at what had happened  in the US during Trump's regime. Economically...