Hyderabad, Sept. 6 -- A Muslim guest teacher in the Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh was publicly shamed after he advised students not to wear tilak in class.

Shahrukh Pathan teaches Class 2 students. He reportedly asked a few Hindu students to refrain from wearing a tilak on their foreheads or kalawa (Hindu religious thread worn on the wrists).

This angered their parents, who, along with members of a Hindutva organisation, Sakal Hindu Samaj, besieged the school shouting "Jai Shri Ram" slogans.

The Muslim teacher was humiliated after they demanded he do sit-ups. "This is very wrong. Children from all communities come here to study. This act insults religious sentiments and tries to distance children from their traditions," one Hindu...