Dhaka, June 18 -- Had the African-American (then called 'negro' or black) lady Rosa Parks been alive today by miracle, she would have certainly felt devastated. A great bewilderment would have overcome her. It would puzzle the daredevil lady of her times that the agitated African-Americans have still to come out onto the US streets to get across a vital message, that too in one of the mammoth democracies in the world. Their message is plain, yet filled with four centuries of pain and fits of oppression. The message reads: 'Black Lives Matter'.

In most likelihood, Ms Parks would shake her head in disbelief that yet another innocent African-American had to die in a busy street, evidently unaware of his fault, at the hands of the lately unc...