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After the terrific incident of getting paralysis by Shinjini Sengupta followed by allegedly rebuked in a reality show, Union Minister for Woman and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury on Tuesday said that parents should be prevented from sending their children to reality shows.

She strongly believes that the reality shows were violating rights of children and they should be kept away from the shows.

Referring to Shinjini Sengupta, a teenage girl here who became partially paralyzed allegedly after being publicly humiliated at a reality show, the minister said despite knowing that the girl had a problem in her spinal chord, her parents had sent her to the show.

“The other day, I saw a tiny girl suggestively gyrating to a song whose meaning she obviously did not know. What do we say to parents sending their children to such shows?” Chowdhury said at a workshop on Amendment to the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.

“My biggest challenge is not so much to educate men but women. They deserve kudos for keeping up the family life despite so much oppression at home.” she said while pointing towards lack of awareness in women.

Shinjini Sengupta, a 16-year-old teenage girl is attacked by paralysis after she was rebuked by the judges at a reality show on a Bengali television channel.

Serious questions are arising after the incident as whether the wanton use of children and teenagers in reality shows all in the name of talent hunt for that elusive element called fame is really worth it?

Tags: Children, Parents, Reality Show, Renuka Chuwdhury, Shinjini Sengupta

A reality show slipped a 16-year-old teenage girl in to a tragic situation after rebuked by the judges. Trauma from public humiliation is said to have damaged her central nervous system and ended with paralysis. Shinjini Sengupta (16) a student of Class XI of a south Kolkata school has now all her dreams crushed on the bed of Bangalore inert hospital.

The girl was a participant of a reality show on a Bengali television channel. On May 19, the talented girl was allegedly rebuked by the judges. It is alleged that the judges wondered out aloud what she was doing in a dance contest, which carried prize money of rupees five lakhs. The public humiliation had a traumatic effect on the girl but she did not burst into tears. This bottled emotion took her into depression and finally left her paralyzed.

After she was admitted to a city nursing home and later to a hospital, the doctors were unable to diagnose the problem. She was then subjected to a MRI and a CT scan but the same yielded no clues.

“The doctors here have not been able to diagnose her problem. She can’t speak or express herself. An MRI and a CT scan have been done, but we still don’t know what she is suffering from,” said Sibani Sengupta, Shinjini’s mother.

Till three days ago, she was able to write down on note paper if she needed something. But now her mother told her school teachers, “Now she cannot even do that.”

Her mother told that after the failure in the reality show, she was upset and almost stopped eating. She slept for most part of the day and listened to music when awake. “Being our only child we never stopped her from doing what she wanted to do. Education was our first priority. If she could manage to learn dance without hampering her studies we were okay with it. Now, I don’t know what we will do. All parents should learn a lesson from us,” said D K Sengupta, Shinjini’s father.

Some days later, Shinjini was at Fun City shooting for a tele-serial. That was the first time her parents realized she was facing a medical problem. “She couldn’t say her dialogues. The director was a bit surprised since she hadn’t behaved like this ever before. We thought she was deliberately doing this. Then we realized that there was a problem,” Sibani said.

Now she was flown to Bangalore, on Friday evening. Psychiatrists invited to news channels said her case was extreme in nature but is definitely not rare. Doctors are now saying it is called the GB syndrome.

Shinjini is a good student with letter marks in her Madhyamik (Class X) examinations. She featured in television serials and also in a film in Bengali going to be released in August. Unable to walk and talk, she is now staring with a glazed look in her eyes.

Serious questions are arising after the incident as whether the wanton use of children and teenagers in reality shows all in the name of talent hunt for that elusive element called fame is really worth it?? What you say?

Tags: Emotion, Paralysis, Reality Show, Shinjini, Tension