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The Blue Whale Challenge was baffling in a way few other things have been. Amid a government crackdown, a new hashtag began trending, CuratorFindMe. Why were so many Indian children desperate to sign up for a game that offered no perks, threatened to hurt their family if they tried to opt out, and demanded strange things of a player leading up to suicide? Things got even murkier as people began to cry Whale for a series of unrelated deaths. By August, the union ministry of electronics and information technology was demanding that internet companies remove links to the game. The Supreme Court (SC) asked the government to ban the game (they couldn since it had no official presence). None of the cases have yet been officially linked to the game; it remains a convenient smokescreen for India high incidence of student depression and mental health issues.

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They combined relationships and virtual gaming with apps for everything from hooking up to threesomes

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Remember the sexist quip by one of the male characters in Shah Rukh Khan 2007 blockbuster Chak De! India, where he insinuates that the hockey field is not meant for women? Well, the situation was not vastly different for women cricket in the country either. Cricket crazy as Indians are, not many can sincerely claim to have sat through a women cricket match. Before the 2017 Women Cricket World Cup, that is. While the women in blue did lose the finals to England, they managed to win national adulation and ensure that cricket in India will never again be only about the men in blue.

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