What is this killer Blue Whale game?

The alertness of a teacher in Burrah, Kanpur saved the life of 11th class student Sushil Kumar Kanojia trapped in the blue whale game, yet there are dozens of students trapped in this game. After all what is this blue whale game? The online blue whale game challenge, instigating young people for dangerous exploits has been known for long in India. The player has to perform 50 tasks in this game lasting for about 50 days, where he hurts himself in many of them. In this game, the player has toultimately  commit suicide. During the entire game the player has to send the videos of all his adventures to the Well or Instructor who has been instructing him so far. About 130 deaths have been reported worldwide due to this challenge. It is said that this game started from Russia in 2013. The first death occurred in 2015 due to a group F-57 of a social networking site VKontakte, called as Death group. A student expelled from a Russian University, Phillip Budeikin claimed that he has invented this game. He did so because he wanted to clean the society. Budeikin stated that it could be done by pushing to suicide those he deemed as having no value. He was arrested for instigating the teenagers for suicide. On May 11^th,Budeikin was convicted and sentenced to jail for three years. Blue Whale is related to the suicide of Whales (big fish). Mammals living in water go to the beach where they die due to dehydration, their own weight or high tide. This game is based upon the relation between the challengers (also called as players or participants) and the fans. It contains a series of tasks assigned by the organizers to be performed by the players. Normally one task is to be done every day; some of them are linked to self-defect. Some tasks may be assigned in advance; the final decision of the game is to commit suicide. The list of the tasks is to be finished within 50 days which includes: waking up at 4.20 in the morning, climbing the crane, making a tattoo of a specific phrase or image on his own hand or arm, performing a secret job, piercing a needle on own hand or foot, standing over a bridge or roof, listening to the music or watching the video sent by the organizer. A music video of an inspiring song Sterio by Norwegian singer Emily Nicholas was included among them. Many cases have come forward related to this game. On July ^20th, 2017, in Andheri (East), Mumbai,a boy aged 14 years committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor. Maharashtra Chief Minister blamed the blue whale game for this suicide. On August 13^th, a boy aged 15 years committed suicide in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. The police suspect that the incidence relates to the game. Despite the awareness and warning about blue whale game in Bhubaneshwar, youth and teenagers are playing the game. Such type of a case came out in the Makai village in Damanjore Police Station. An ITI student Anil Barik got trapped after playing many rounds of the blue whale game. At last he had to commit suicide but he was saved. He says that he got a hyper link from his smartphone. He uploaded it eagerly. While he was playing the game, his grandmother came there. She saw that he is not behaving normally. She informed other family members. Relatives snatched his mobile, but till then he had made a cut on his wrist. Police SP of KotapurKanwar Vishal told that after investigation it will come to know that had it happened due to the blue whale game. Relatives of a student trapped in blue whale game in Solan told that their child used to go to a private school for study and for the last few days he used to sleep late in the night and wake up at four in the morning. When the parents had the information of this 12 year old  boy being trapped in the game, they stopped sending him to school. The boy is shocked since he now come to know the reality of the game and is nowgradually exposing the secrets. While talking he told that three students were playing this game together and he played two chapters of the game and depicted the signs of blue whale on his arm. Government of India and all the State Governments should immediately expose this game and, if possible,ban the blue whale game. It has been banned in many countries. Parents and relatives will have to take special care. No one could ever imagine that smartphone in the hands of children may be mortal. Save the Children.

Anil Narendra