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Last week, two videos went viral. One, of a woman in Mumbai, on her way to pick up her child from school, yelling at a Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for blocking traffic and hampering regular citizens’ movement. The other, of Tamil Nadu minister P. Thiaga Rajan breaking down on the final electioneering leg, when he spoke about his father.