No Child’s Play

There seems to be no end to the Kafkaesque nightmare a small school skit has triggered in Bidar, Karnataka. It was meant to be an in-house performance, but a proud parent, Muhammad Yousuf Raheem, decided to stream it on Facebook. Local BJP activist Nilesh Rakshyal took note, and lodged a police complaint stating that children were being instigated into uttering unpatriotic words, hurling abuses at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and being trained to say that if the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR) and the