The hangman’s noose has apparently satiated some of our appetite for revenge for the terrible crimes committed by a young man who so casually sauntered into Mumbai four years ago, a gun slung across his shoulder, shooting innocent citizens at random. That image of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab stays with us. In the nation’s collective imagination, we can now also see him hanging from a rope. Crime and punishment. Violence and retribution. Due process of the law. Justice delivered.