Days after a viral video of a 10-year-old girl hugging her grandparents through a cuddle curtain that she made for them melted hearts online, business magnate Anand Mahindra shared a video of a man hugging his grandma through a similar curtain
A screengrab of the video shared by Anand Mahindra on Twitter
The Coronavirus outbreak has impacted people across the globe. With social distancing becoming the new normal, the pandemic has changed the way people greet each other and show affection towards their loved ones. Days after a viral video of a 10-year-old girl hugging her grandparents through a cuddle curtain that she made for them melted hearts online, business magnate Anand Mahindra shared a video of a man hugging his grandma through a similar curtain.
The chairman of the Mahindra and Mahindra Group shared the video on Twitter, calling the curtain a ‘life-changing’ device for the ‘elderly who have been missing the embrace of their families’. The video was originally shared on Facebook by Miriam Cauvin in which her husband Anthony makes the curtain for his grandmother using shower curtains with disposable gloves. In the clip, the grandmother is seen coming of the house wearing plastic gloves and walking towards the curtain with Anthony. They are then seen standing on either sides of the curtain and Anthony helps his grandmother put her hands inside the plastic outlet after which they hug each other for a long time.
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Mahindra shared the video with a caption that reads, “It didn’t take a Nobel prize winner to create this device. But to the elderly, who have been missing the embrace of their families, this invention will rank as a life-changing one... As important as the vaccine we’re all waiting for...”
It didn’t take a Nobel prize winner to create this device. But to the elderly, who have been missing the embrace of their families, this invention will rank as a life-changing one... As important as the vaccine we’re all waiting for... pic.twitter.com/V6V0TxnGY9
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) May 19, 2020
The video shared on Twitter garnered more than 353,000 views with 38,700 likes and was retweeted more than7,600 times. Users commenting on the video praised the innovative curtain and posted about how a hug from a loved one can be a stressbuster.
The hugging curtain!!
— u00f0u009fu0087u00aeu00f0u009fu0087u00b3u00f0u009du0093u0090u00f0u009du0093u00bcu00f0u009du0093u00b1u00f0u009du0094u0080u00f0u009du0093u00b2u00f0u009du0093u00b7u00f0u009du0093u00b2 u00f0u009du0093u00a1u00f0u009du0093u00aau00f0u009du0093u00b3u00f0u009du0093u00aeu00f0u009fu0092u0095 (@Ashwini_Raje) May 19, 2020
Human touch or hug is stress buster.
— #Padmakar Tillu. u00e0u00aeu00aau00e0u00aeu00a4u00e0u00afu008du00e0u00aeu00aeu00e0u00aeu00beu00e0u00aeu0095u00e0u00aeu00b0u00e0u00afu008d u00e0u00aeu009fu00e0u00aeu00bfu00e0u00aeu00b2u00e0u00afu008du00e0u00aeu00b2u00e0u00afu0082 (@PadmakarTillu) May 19, 2020
A pat on a back make you energetic.
This is so wonderful..
— Meghna Girish (@megirish2001) May 19, 2020
As doctor parents of a five year old kid, me and my wife wl definitely want this. Meeting our son only on video call for past 2 months(he is with grandparents) is currently only option. We really miss hugging and holding him.
— harsh chandane (@drhrsh) May 19, 2020
u00e2u009du00a4u00efu00b8u008f Heart warming one.. and as always, it's not so much the video that @anandmahindra tweets, but the message he conveys with the tweet that makes the videos so endearing..u00f0u009fu0099u008f
— Vrinda Pisharody (@vrindapisharody) May 20, 2020
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