Meerut, June 4 -- He had a routine. Every morning at 7am, he left his village home for his school, 1km away. At 1pm in the afternoon, he would return and then spend the rest of the day in the modest two-room unfinished brick house, taking a break to play with his friends in the evening. But August 23, 2023 was different. That afternoon, as the seven-year-old Muslim boy pushed past the weathered wooden gates into a room with dabs of cement slapped on chipped bricks, he was trembling. His face was red and dried tears had formed streaks on his sunken face. "He couldn't eat or speak for days. He kept asking, why did they hate me? It broke my heart," said his mother. Eventually that day, the boy told his parents what had happened - that his teac...