Parents worry about language barrier, as MEA, government officials discuss teaching the child Indian languages

As Ariha Shah, the Indian child taken into parental custody by German Youth Services in 2021 turned three years old, her mother Dhara Shah made another plea to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the matter, alleging that German authorities were making no attempt to introduce her to Indian culture. 

Ms. Shah, who was allowed to visit her daughter under supervision last week, says that despite the Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA) request that German Youth Services or Jugendamt ensure the child is brought up culturally “as an Indian”, Ariha speaks only German and is not being taught English or any other Indian language. She also said that the Jugendamt had turned down a request from the Indian community in Berlin to allow Ariha to attend the Indian Embassy’s Republic Day function.

The Bombay High Court has canceled the adoption of a child given to a couple in Mumbai. The couple had adopted this 4-year-old child just 5 months ago. The child was handed over to Bal Asha Trust from the police station. The child has a habit of overeating

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has canceled the adoption of a 4-year-old child in his interest. In August 2023, the court gave the child for adoption to a couple. The couple had adopted the child by filing a petition through Bal Asha Trust. After 5 months of adoption, the couple complained to the Trust about the child's uncontrolled bad behavior and habits. Also said that he has not been able to develop emotional attachment with the child, hence we want to return the child. For this they are ready to follow all the rules. Let us tell you that the couple already has a daughter. The trust has suggested counseling to the couple to understand the behavior of the child. So that necessary steps can be taken to improve the behavior of the child. Meanwhile, the Trust suggested adoption experts Central and State Adoption Resource, District Child Protection Unit to study the couple's house.

The aspect of the couple's inability to have a child together was examined. Counseling revealed the child's overeating behavior. The couple also talked about picking up food from the child's dustbin. Then the child was taken to the doctor. After blood test, it was found that the child was on the border line of leptin and diabetes. According to the doctor's opinion, the child may be suffering from obesity and other health problems related to diabetes.
 

The child was found at the police station

During counselling, it was revealed that the couple had no emotional attachment to the child, but the child had an attachment to them. With all the reports and the affidavit of the couple, the Trust had filed a petition in the High Court demanding cancellation of the adoption. The child given in adoption was found by the couple at NM Joshi Marg Police Station, which was handed over to Bal Asha Trust.

The case was heard before Justice Riyaz Chagla. During this time, after considering all the reports and affidavits, Justice Chagla canceled the order of adoption dated 17 August 2023. Also instructed the adoption agency to register the child for adoption again.

BY BRIANNA CHAVEZ

KSLNewsRadio

PROVO, Utah — A Provo, Utah woman said she and several other American families living in Haiti are unable to come back to the United States due to a halted adoption process.

Utah woman in Haiti says adoption authority was ransacked

KOCHI: Things seem to be looking up for the Punjabi girl who faced abandonment by her adoptive parents in Kerala. The elderly couple had moved the court to annul the adoption of the 18-year-old, who is now dreaming of a career in fashion design. Following intervention by the Kerala High Court, the state government has facilitated her admission to the fashion design course at Thiruvananthapuram Government Polytechnic. She will also join a Hindi language course offered by Hindi Prachar Sabha to explore opportunities in her home state.  

The couple from Thiruvananthapuram had adopted her as a 12-year-old, on an order issued by the Guardian Judge, Ludhiana, Punjab in 2018. They sought to repeal the adoption on the basis that she was unable to integrate herself into the family. According to the couple, they tried their best to rehabilitate and assimilate the child into the family, but to no avail.

They had adopted her in a difficult phase in their life when they had lost their only son in a car accident on January 14, 2017. TNIE broke the news of the couple approaching the HC to void the adoption last November. The court expressed hope that “there will be a change in the perception and attitude of the parents in time, because, after all, as they say, time is the greatest healer. Perhaps, reconciliation between them and the child could then be a possibility.”

When the petition filed by the couple came up for hearing, amicus curiae Parvathi Menon submitted that the girl had been shifted to Sree Chitra Home, an institution under the state government more suited for adults and that arrangements had been made for her to attend a fashion design course at the Thiruvananthapuram Government Polytechnic. She added that if the girl wants Hindi as the medium of education, then it can also be decided – depending upon the progress that she makes as of now – to shift her to one of the courses to be offered by the Hindi Prachar Sabha. 

The amicus curiae also said that she is trying to obtain support from the government of Punjab and Haryana through the advocate general there, as also the Legal Service Authority, to alternatively explore whether the girl can be accommodated in her home state if that is what she wants in due course. That can be done only with the assistance of Jayachithra S, superintendent of Sudharma Home, where the girl resided before being moved to Sree Chitra Home, and Shaniba Begum, chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee, Thiruvananthapuram, the amicus curiae added.

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Les 11.000 mailles – “Academia Catavencu”

Dear readers,

What follows is a story that precedes the visit to Romania of a French prime minister and his entourage. The Prime Minister is called Lionel Jospin and he is coming.

From: Arun Dohle

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019, 16:10

Subject: Duty of care / security

To:

Dear Mr. Roques,

“Dear mum, my biggest dream in this world is to meet you. Only one time in life, just to see you if possible… please come back to me.”

 

In an emotional plea, Navya Dorigatti, has launched an intensive search for her biological mother and is asking her to come forward at least once.

 

Navya was born in Calicut, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, in 1984. However, she was left behind by her biological mother in an orphanage and thereafter was adopted by an Italian couple at the age of two.

 

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BHIWANDI: When Christopher Huth, a 27-year-old special education teacher and soccer coach in the US, embarked on a journey to India two months ago, it was on a crucial mission: to find his roots, his family in Bhiwandi. For, two decades ago, he lived here with his family, before he was sent off by his mother to an Andhra orphanage, from where he was adopted by a US couple.
 

All that he remembers is that he spent his childhood in Bhiwandi where his two elder brothers, Deepak Mistry and Sagar, worked in textile units. He also recalls that his sister would call him Sai.

Explaining his search for his family, Huth, who lives outside Washington DC, said that since his family was poor, his mother sent him and his sister, Asha, to an ashram in Sandur town of Andhra Pradesh, when he was five and his sister seven. While his sister fled the place within six months, he was adopted by a US couple in 1997, when he was seven. During adoption, his name was given as Praveen Kumar. Later, his name was changed to Christopher.

He said that for the past two months, he along with his three friends from US and one from Delhi has been in India searching for his family. They first went to the Andhra town, where they learnt the orphanage was shut 17 years ago. He met to one of caretakers, but could not get any details about his family.
 

Christopher, who came to Mumbai on Friday, met the local tehsildar and some locals and sought their help in finding his family by showing them photographs from his childhood.