, Columnist
Lynch Mobs Are India’s Problem, Not WhatsApp’s
The real issue is bad policing and craven politicians.
A victim of one of the mobs.
Photographer: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images
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As far as Indians are concerned, the mobile phone was invented so we could use WhatsApp. The messaging app’s little green icon is now an inextricable part of our lives. We might survive without Facebook, which I haven’t checked in weeks. We might turn up our noses at Instagram, which seems to consist entirely of people’s vacation photos in Lisbon. We might even undergo Twitter detox days. But when an Indian has tired of WhatsApp, she has tired of life.