Former SFI leader Anupama S Chandran with her husband Ajith protesting in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram, seeking their child back as she alleged that the newborn was taken away from her illegally. Photo: Manoj Chemancheri

Anupama S Chandran was a former worker of the Students' Federation of India, the students arm of the ruling CPM. Yet, she has been forced to hit the streets in protest to get back her child, allegedly taken away from her by her parents three days after his birth and given up for adoption.

"My father says the child was abandoned considering my – his daughter's – future, since I am an unwed mother. His argument is that it was done for my future. My argument is also the same: ain't I fighting for my son," Anupama, who staged a protest in front of the Secretariat with her partner Ajith Kumar asked.

You were a worker of the ruling party's students and youth wings. Still you have to hit the streets against the government machinery?

My father P S Jayachandran is a local leader and a local committee member of the party. The party gave him priority due to his political influence, resulting in me losing the child. I knocked at several doors, but none opened. When I had lost trust in the party, I had no alternative other than hitting the streets.

CPI(M) expresses solidarity with the mother

The State Government on Saturday appeared to scramble to contain the social and political fallout of the so-called ‘forced’ adoption case. It has sought legal opinion to move the court to cancel the child’s adoption and return the infant to its biological mother.

The police would investigate the questionable adoption process and the alleged falsification of the infant’s birth certificate to erase its true identity. They have already brought the child’s grandfather, a CPI(M) leader, under the ambit of its probe.

The compelling account of a young and unmarried mother’s futile search for her child “forcibly taken away from her three days after birth and given up for adoption’ via the Child Welfare Council (CWC) had resonated strongly among the public.

The controversy arguably cast the government in poor light after the woman, an SFI activist and daughter of a party leader, revealed how she and the child’s father, now married to her, was allegedly pushed from pillar to post by “CPI(M) apparatchiks and the police” in the two-year-old distressing quest for their ‘disappeared’ child.

Thiruvananthapuram: Ajith’s first wife Nasiya has come out with an allegation against

Anupama saying she was aware of the adoption of her baby. She told media that she had

seen Anupama signing the adoption document and that she was fully in the know while signing.

Anupama decided to sign it when she knew that Ajith was not going to get a divorce, she said.

Nasiya also alleged that Ajitth's relationship with Anupama was the reason for their

Eric Wardell, an Indigenous man from Canada’s Northwest Territories, was taken from his parents at just three weeks old, in what is known in Canada as the “sixties scoop.” In this first-person story, Wardell explores his identity — what it means to discover who you are, and how your past can shape your future. This story is part of the ‘Turning Points’ series: stories told by Indigenous people from Yellowknife, Canada in partnership with the Global Reporting Centre.

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When I was six, I asked my mom whether I was adopted.

There was no event in particular that convinced me I wasn’t born to my family, I just knew.

Since the trauma of maternal separation is preverbal, my body remembered being ripped away from my birth mother, even if I didn’t yet have language for it.

However, when my mom somehow evaded my question, I decided not to press her for answers.

When I turned 10, I tried again. The intuitive feeling that I wasn’t related to my parents never went away. It only intensified. This time, my mom confirmed that my biological parents had given me up for adoption as a newborn, and they had adopted me to raise me as their own.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTVM) - Hundreds of children are waiting to be adopted in Alabama’s foster care system.

While the Alabama Department of Human Resources says almost 1,300 foster kids have been adopted since the start of the pandemic, the need for loving homes still exists and new nonprofit in our area agrees.

“Court Appointed Special Advocates of Montgomery County” or CASA is advocating for children in the courtroom.

“So we advocate for children in foster care, the judge appoints us to the case, and we come alongside them, and get to know the kids and be able to advocate for them in court and in other areas of life,” said Charity Alpert, CASA Executive Director.

CASA is just under a year old and will be hosting its first fundraiser this Saturday - a superhero 5k and fun run in downtown Montgomery.

Two years after Belgium apologized for what it did to hundreds of metis, it remains silent. Strangely enough, acknowledging and forgetting the horror in Congo go hand in hand from the start, Jeroen Olyslaegers notes.

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New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court (/topic/delhi-high-court) on Thursday asked Centre (/topic/centre)

and others to file a response on a petition by an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder couple, residing in New Delhi for the

last four years, with a grievance that despite having registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) for the

adoption (/topic/adoption) of a child in 2018, have till date not received any referral for a child.

Justice Rekha Palli granted more time to Centre (/topic/centre), and CARA to file a reply on the petition and listed the matter

Thiruvananthapuram: The baby of former SFI leader Anupama S Chandran who was

allegedly taken away by her parents was adopted by a couple from Andhra Pradesh, it is

learnt. The child was adopted temporarily and the court proceedings to make the adoption

process permanent is progressing amid the controversies. Anupama S Chandran, the

Daughter of a Peroorkada CPI-M area committee member Jayachandran, came up with