NEW DELHI, June 15 -- Even as I hear the dying cry of George Floyd gasping, 'I can't breathe!' I wonder who it is that cannot breathe? Is it the black minority that gasps under the weight of a white majority? Or is it the white majority that sees African Americans enjoying their same freedom and are stifled with anger, struggling to accept the equality, the law has given them?

Many years back in college, some seniors thought a junior was easy prey too. One day while sitting alone in the car park, I saw a bunch of these bullies approaching a junior student. This was ragging time for juniors who had just entered the prestigious college. They started demeaning him, and suddenly in the middle of the insults, things changed. What the seniors di...