Shark Tank success, then a Presidential award. This 14-year-old told Brut how she started her anti-bullying crusade.
📹: Anti Bullying Squad.
📹: Anti Bullying Squad.
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00:00I'll give you 5 lakhs for the 10% that you want.
00:18One of those moments in life where you feel like you've really accomplished something.
00:31The teacher had left the classroom for some time and I was walking to my chair
00:36but before I could reach one of the girls like pulled down my pants in front of the whole class
00:40and they she they humiliated me there are so many other people that go through similar things
01:02that go through bullying but they don't have understanding parents or a good school
01:08or just people that will understand.
01:38So the one thing that's been consistent in all of these cases
01:51is that the bullying was not reported on time.
02:02Coverage was not only a solution for the people that are getting bullied
02:06or people that are witnessing it but also for authorities in school
02:11who want to take action and want to eradicate the issue but don't exactly know how.
02:24A funny story actually was that I'm not very good at Hindi and I wrote my entire pitch in English
02:31so last minute they changed the whole thing to Hindi and I don't know how I memorized
02:37the whole thing in Hindi but it was just extremely stressful.
02:44Last minute out of nowhere Mr. Anupam made that in
02:49offer and then Mr. Amar jumped in so while I was just processing that
02:53the other amazing thing happened and there was just there was just an overload of joy.
03:02So
03:10more than ever I felt motivated that I was going to go home and I was going to work
03:16even harder on whatever I'm doing and come back and make her even prouder.
03:22Coverage 2.0 is going to be focusing on democratizing access
03:27to affordable mental health for adolescents.
03:34Once you start putting yourself first and you start realizing when it's time to stand up for
03:40yourself, I think your life's going to be pretty awesome.
03:51you