‘Give me my baby’ Adopted without consent
Through the rain and steamy heat of November, Anupama SChandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat day and night. She refused to eat, drink or be moved, her single demand written on a placard: “Give me my baby.”
The story of Chandran’s fight to get back her child – put up for adoption without her knowledge – is one that has been greeted with horror and a sad familiarity in India. In a country where society
