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Moushumi Das Gupta is a Deputy Editor and leads the government vertical. She writes on politics, policy, governance and infrastructure. She has travelled extensively across the country to report on elections, conflict and natural disasters. Moushumi joined ThePrint in October 2018. She can be reached at moushumi.gupta@theprint.in
Ms Vasundhara Raje neatly side stepped Dr Prannoy Roy’s question about lynching, stating blandly that a murder was a crime that should be dealt with according to the law. We should applaud ordinary citizens both for their instinctive understanding of complex social issues and their basic decency and humanity. Absent these, which underpin the success India has made of its democracy despite so many constraints, the world would simply see us as a Third World country with a daily per capita income of $ 5.