India, Sept. 25 -- I recently met a senior from my society during the morning walk. He had celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday with his family, who had prepared a PowerPoint presentation with photographs capturing his journey from childhood to the present. Half-jokingly, he said he was thinking of burying the document somewhere in the society lawns for a future generation to discover. A time capsule of sorts.

It was not long before our conversation turned to the extreme positions, and often the language, adopted by some of our esteemed residents on the WhatsApp groups while criticising the incumbent governing body. We have witnessed this for the past ten years and will probably continue to do so, irrespective of who occupies those pos...