Recently, I saw a banner fluttering outside a home on Pedder Road in Mumbai. It said something like this:

Dear Home Minister,

Can we please stay with you? We don't feel safer in our own homes anymore.

And here's one that came in an SMS:

To the President and Prime Minister of India,

I don't ask you to hang Ajmal Kasab.

I just request the Government of India to protect all of us in the same way as you have protected him.

Long live India's democracy!