New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- School textbooks rarely get recalled after their rollout, but it happened this week with a social science book withdrawn by India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), a government institution. Of the 38 copies sold on Monday at an NCERT counter in Delhi, 16 had been taken back by Wednesday, as reported, with UPI data trails being sought to retrieve a few proving hard to trace.

This recall followed a swift order from the education ministry in response to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant's objection to a part on "corruption in the judiciary."

A thin online sample suggests two kinds of reactions popped up on social media to the court's intervention. Some teenagers wondered why it's such a ...