Help pours in for Jalandhar’s Kusum after her brave attempt to fight snatchers for her phone

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 5

A day after The Tribune published the report “Dad toiled hard for phone, couldn’t lose it”, enormous help has started pouring in for the 15-year-old Kusum, who had fought two bike-borne youths who tried to snatch her phone.

After the report, the correspondent received several calls to help the little Braveheart. People have offered her mobile phones, laptop and tabs.

Kusum has already received a new smart phone and she will get a laptop this week.

The report was widely circulated on social media as well and shared on Twitter by celebrities namely Varun Grover and Richa Chadha, and cartoonist Satish among others, and that is how everyone got to know about the actual reason why Kusum couldn’t let the snatchers take away her phone.

Elated Kusum, while speaking with The Tribune, said she was thankful to everyone who was offering her help.

“Now, I just want to concentrate on my studies and the NCC. I will be able to study properly now on the big screen,” she said, adding that everyone who was calling, is praising her exemplary courage.

She will be discharged by the hospital today evening.

Sadhu Ram, Kusum’s father, said he had received nearly Rs 55,000 from good Samaritans. “I am still getting many calls and some took my address so that they could send a laptop for my daughter,” Sadhu Ram said.

Kusum said: “The smartphone didn’t come easy. My father toiled hard to purchase it after schools were shut and classes went online due to the pandemic. It’s priceless.”