{"id":39631,"date":"2021-12-09T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/give-me-my-baby-an-indian-womans-fight-to-reclaim-her-son-after-adoption-without-consent"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:00:02","slug":"give-me-my-baby-an-indian-womans-fight-to-reclaim-her-son-after-adoption-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39631","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Give me my baby\u2019: an Indian woman\u2019s fight to reclaim her son after adoption without consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anupama S Chandran\u2019s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the Dalit caste<\/p>\n<p>Through the rains and steamy heat of November, day and night, Anupama S Chandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat. She refused to eat, drink or be moved. Her single demand was written on a placard: \u201cGive me my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of Chandran\u2019s fight to get back her child, who was snatched from her by her own family days after he was born and put up for adoption without her knowledge, is one that has been greeted with both horror and a sad familiarity in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/give-me-my-baby-an-indian-womans-fight-to-reclaim-her-son-after-adoption-without-consent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anupama S Chandran\u2019s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the Dalit casteThrough the rains and steamy heat of November, day and night, Anupama S Chandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,757,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-parents-and-parenting","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631\/revisions\/39632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}