Unfortunately, the reality show Triptaji has appeared in is the kind of episode that most of us would wish we hadn't seen. No one really wants to see footage of a seven-year-old being hit by the rest of his classmates while his teacher urges them to hit harder.
As I write this, Tyagi, the teacher and owner of Neha Public School in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, is still grouchily defending herself, the centre of a national and local storm. Here are some of the convoluted justifications marshalled by Tyagi and others. She had a disability, so she couldn't get up to hit the child herself. The child hadn't learnt his multiplication tables. He had been asked to learn them a month ago. The child's uncle had asked for him to be disciplined. Children need to be controlled. In a later video, Tyagi talks about the first video having been manipulated; on what front, she doesn't make clear since she doesn't deny organising the daisy chain of hitting.
But almost all the voices involved are trying to establish whether the incident had a "communal flavour". As a clan member of Tyagi's told the Article-14 website: "This was such a small matter. We all were beaten in schools. It is common for teachers to punish kids in schools when they make mistakes. Nothing wrong and big in that."
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