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We suffer our own domestic Donald Trumps; we mourn our own George Floyds

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A protest outside the White House against the killing of George Floyd. Following the violent protest, US President Donald Trump was forced to take shelter in the White House bunker. US has put nearly 40 cities under curfew and arrested 4,000. Reuters

Sunanda K Datta-Ray
When I began this column those familiar lines from Shakespeare’s play within a play “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/That he should weep for her?” were ringing in my ears, warning that race murder in Minneapolis was no concern of mine. As I read and wrote, the lines changed to John Donne’s “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...”
 
So much death and disaster surround us in India that a white policeman kneeling on the neck of a 46-year-old North Carolina Black for
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