.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Putting out strong messages against child abuse, skipper Virat Kohli and his mates in the Indian cricket team shared a video of a crying child on their social media over the weekend.
In the video, a girl is crying profusely while being tutored numbers 1-5. The teacher physically abuses the child who is pleading for leniency.
The child has now been identified as the 3-year-old niece of singer and composer duo Toshi and Sharib Sabri, reported Business of Cinema. According to the report, the person rebuking the child is her mother.
Hindustan Times contacted Toshi and this is what he had to say about his niece Haya,
One can’t judge a mother’s love for the child by seeing a short video. If children throw tantrums, then should we stop teaching them? It’s not easy to raise children... Haya’s nature is such that after being scolded, the next minute she runs off to play. But, because of her nature, if we don’t push her, she won’t study.
Toshi also said, “Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan don’t know about us. We know about our child better.”
Here are her videos from her happier days:
Hope her parents realise the trauma that they can inflict upon her by indulging in corporal punishment. And for all the other kids, may they always keep smiling.
(At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. Because the truth is worth it.)