What Killed Gauri Lankesh? : Article on Youth Ki Awaaz

The flow of words with an emphasis on exposure of the truth can be lethal – history perhaps is the biggest proof to this notion till date.Beginning from the uprisings in the belated 18th century France to the modern day ‘big’ democracies of the world,the attempts to silence voices that share instances capable of changing what apparently resembles truth is observable if you take a keen look into the chronological outflow of these incidents.



“Nigger!Get your hands outta my pocket!” was the last thing the assassin of Malcolm X yelled. The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to his chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast.Five decades later,in the heart of the “largest democracy in the world”,Muslim men are murdered for the consumption of beef,students from the minority communities strangely disappear and nothing but brute force
is exerted on their families to sabotage the initiation of any further protests that might arise from the spark,Dalit students are institutionally murdered and if,by chance,you end up getting vocal about these instances,you are encountered with seven bullets right in front of your own residence in a metropolitan and three of them hit you in the danger zone,including the head,hands and chest.

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