Virat’s ‘girlfriend’ leaves teacher on a sticky wicket

The class IX students of Chacha Nehru Hindi High School, Bhiwandi had a field day on October 13, after a question in their physical training (PT) education question paper asked them to name cricketer Virat Kohli’s girlfriend. And guess what, all the students got the right answer — Anushka!

Embarrassed with all the media attention, the rattled PT teacher from the Bhiwandi school issued an apology to the school’s principal after posing the following question in a Class IX examination — ‘Who is the girlfriend of cricketer Virat Kohli ’ (Option: Priyanka, Anushka or Deepika). The principal, though, took pride in the fact that almost all the students had given the right answer “Anushka”. His only objection was to the use of the word ‘girlfriend’ in the question.

Principal of the school, A. Pandey, said that the question was inappropriate for class IX students, since it had the word ‘girlfriend’. “If the question had not had the word ‘girlfriend’ in it, there wouldn’t have been such an issue. But it is inappropriate for anyone to ask students of this age such a question. However, most students answered the question correctly,” Mr Pandey said.

Mr Pandey added that a memo was sent to the teacher concerned and he submitted a written reply. “The teacher has apologised for having framed the question,” he said. Mr Pandey also claimed that certain teachers, who are not associated with the school, circulated the image of the question paper in order to create an issue out of it.