Category: News Articles

When Ramesh wanted to take his four children, they were sent to a family in Denmark

Google Translation:   Full text in Danish HERE Politiken, 12 May 2013 In 2003, four Indian siblings abducted and adopted to Denmark against their father’s will. That believes the Indian Prosecutor leading a major case against the perpetrator, who is also accused of similar cases. The children’s father, Ramesh Kulkarni, the year before been widowed… Read more »

Indian mum demands return of stolen daughter

Date: 2013-02-21  SEE ALSO VIDEO AT BELOW LINK: Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news 7.30 By South Asia correspondent Michael Edwards Updated 2 hours 58 minutes ago VIDEO: Indian family demands Australian authorities return adopted girl (7.30) RELATED STORY: Baby’s death shines spotlight on human traffickingRELATED STORY: Australian families caught up in India adoption scandal An Indian family is demanding… Read more »

Indian family in fight to repatriate stolen daughter

Source: http://www.theage.com.au Date February 19,  2013 Fatima (left) and Salya attend the High Court in India in 2010. AN INDIAN mother, whose child was kidnapped and illegally adopted to  Australia, has accused the country’s officials and the girl’s adoptive parents  of blocking the now teenager from having contact with her and of making no  effort… Read more »

Gandhis vs a Swedish nurse: The murky secrets of international adoptions

Source: http://be.bing.com by FP Staff 10 September 2012 Why are the descendants of the Father of the Nation trying to keep an Indian adoptee from finding out who was her birth mother? Mihir Srivastava’s cover story for Open Magazine about the tangled web of international adoptions tries to shed light on many dark family secrets… Read more »

India: Family Secrets

Source: http://www.openthemagazine.com 15 September 2012 Cross-border adoption: the trauma of knowing one was given away at birth and the travails of trying to find out why BY Mihir Srivastava EMAIL AUTHOR(S) Tagged Under | adoption | birth | foster parents BELONGING THE QUEST Arun Dohle, in his foster father’s lap

31 years on, daughter comes calling from Netherlands

Mumbai, 29 July 2012 Frontpage The Indian Express: Part I Part II Thirty-one years ago when an unwed mother surrendered her month-old baby at an orphanage, little did she imagine that her daughter would find a way into her life while she battled cancer at the age of 53. In a heartwarming rendezvous, Carina Roodenburg… Read more »

Governments Communicate in Kairi Case But Won’t Reveal Details

Source: http://www.indiaamericatoday.com Article |     June 12, 2012 – 11:19pm – Updated 13 June Washington – The United States government on Tuesday told India America Today that Washington was in touch with Delhi, but the US State Department in the same vein refused to confirm if it had received the letters of communication from its Indian… Read more »

Deported woman seeks MEA’s help

Source: http://www.firstpost.com May 28, 2012 In a letter to Krishna, Jennifer Edgell Haynes, claims that she was a victim of child trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation after she was adopted by an American couple when she was seven years old. Seeking the minister’s help. “Until three years back I believed I was a citizen of… Read more »

Adopted in 1973, reunited with mother in 2010

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com Published: Thursday, Nov 18, 2010, 3:50 IST By Mayura Janwalkar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. —Marion C. Garretty, American author When Arun Dohle, India-born German national, started on his mission to find his biological mother, it seemed… Read more »