From the Editor-in-Chief

If data is the new oil, then India in recent weeks has seen it being used to make Molotov cocktails. Heeding rumours of child-lifters spread by the popular messaging application WhatsApp, mobs have brutally lynched 30 persons across the country, bludgeoning their victims to death with sticks, stones and iron rods. The dead were among the weakest, most vulnerable members of society, migrant workers and beggars, in some