This is the shocking moment a father balances his daughter on a bamboo pole before hoisting her high in the air and catching her.<br /><br />Footage captured on August 1 in Bagli, Madhya Pradesh, India, shows a man with the pseudonym Lakhan before a crowd of villagers as he performs the dangerous stunt for their entertainment.<br /><br />Placing the four-year-old girl on the precarious-looking stick, he lifts her several metres in the air before throwing the pole to the wayside and catching her just inches before she hits the floor.<br /><br />The villagers clap at the reckless stunt, which outraged the filmer, Ravi Mishra.<br /><br />Photojournalist Mishra told Newsflare: "I spoke to Lakhan for as long as an hour and I was sad to see how adamant he was while justifying the act and risking his daughter's life, only to make ends meet.<br /><br />"In a day, Lakhan earns 500 to 700 Rupees, which is a lot of money to be made in a village. The sight of a young girl being used as a means of entertainment, without any safety measure, is horrifying."<br /><br />Mishra added that the act pushed him to inform a local NGO in the hopes of stopping such forms of entertainment. <br /><br />But the real danger, he adds, is poverty. <br /><br />He writes: "It is my humble and earnest appeal to everybody to not just paint a grim picture about such acts but, also stop and report them being performed in the name of entertainment, under the shadow of poverty."
