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‘Lynchistan’ Protests – The New Award Vapsi Mob violence in the past During the morning of 31-Oct 1984, while I was in school in Delhi, one of my classmates mentioned that the there had been an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister, but she was unharmed. My response was that of disbelief at the assassination attempt but as the day progressed in school, it was confirmed that the Prime Minister had indeed been shot at, and that she was in hospital. In spite of the conservative reporting by Doordarshan in those days, before evening it was known that the Prime Minister had breathed her last in the morning itself. The following morning newspapers reported that the car of the then President of India (a Sikh) was stoned as he returned from a foreign trip and his motorcade headed out of the airport. May be well worth asking how commoners wanting to express their anger against Sikhs in general, became aware of the President’s confidential itinerary. Or perhaps the report wa...