Class I student P Obeadh has been forced by his parents to carry on the risky stance of skating under high speed cars just to bring their son's name in Guinness Book of Records despite knowing that it can take Obeadh's life at any moment.

But the Indians seem to be careless of Pondicherry based P Obeadh, who has already earned a fame for his limbo skating under 100 moving cars. Now he is all set to enter his name in the Guinness Book of World Records by skating under 200 moving cars. Here the mentor is his mother Jayabharathi Mark, careless of pushing her own son to perform dangerous feat just to earn fame and money.


Obeadh has been practicing the precarious route since he was three-year old. His parents claim that he is the first in the world to achieve it. The crowd spends anxious moments as and when he vanishes under the cars moving at a high speed except his parents. This time he is ready to raise the bar.

The show has astonished the ordinary audience and the TV viewers, who have seen Obeadh’s performance in Saabas India. Pondicherry chief minister N Rangaswamy had also enjoyed the show and patted Obeadh to boost up his energy. There was no doctor or ambulance nearby when the show was arranged. His parent’s craze for a world record was so evident. A taekwondo student, Obeadh has been undergoing regular coaching in roller-skating. He is studying in standard one at Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School. Stalin, general secretary of Puducherry Taekwondo Sports Association is confident of Obeadh in creating the record. He said that Obeadh is a keen practitioner and can overcome the hurdles.


Guinness world records does not restrict children from attempting dangerous feats, but requires an undertaking from a parent or a guardian that safety precautions are followed.


The question is, whether the society that has been criticising child abuse and the social activists who are working to save the children from being abused, will allow the parents to push their child to such a risky venture just for a record?


Obeadh takes only 20 minutes to display his daredevil attempts in skating underneath 100 cars, near the revolving tyres almost touching his cheeks on the metal road. A fatal accident is not unlikely at all.


Activists opine that the craze of the parents for a world record, at the cost of a such risk should be avoided because good parenting says something else. Boosting up the child to be courageous is not bad, but to push them to become daredevils is not a suggestive proposition at all. What Obeadh is doing is simply the result of tremendous practice and not a skill. This is not an intelligent move. It’s something like the romantic journey of a child to touch the moon. They are satisfying to the demands of their unreasonable parents or coaches, without understanding its physical and mental impact. Current example is Budhia who failed to make a mark even in school sports.


Darshil, the child actor in Taare Zameen Par has been refusing to meet people including the media. He has openly admitted that he is tired of it all. His mother Sheetal Safari is astonished about his behavior; probably, because this child of hers has brought home Rs 75 lakhs by acting in a single Hindi Film. But she is unable to understand that her son is really tired. If this pressure continues then Darshil will may never shine in life, be it in film or in the academic field.


These children are not different from the other children who are struggling with a brain-block due to their parents’ pressure to become first in school every year. A large section of these children either go waste or commit suicide when they feel that they have failed to fulfill their parents’ wish..


A social activist of Puducherry Vidya Reddy is perhaps right in her observation that “If a publicity-hungry parent makes a child go under so many cars in a limbo skating fashion, I definitely think it is abusive. There should be intervention by authorities to make parents understand what good parenting is.”