{"id":1699,"date":"2010-11-17T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:01:44","slug":"adopted-in-1973-reunited-with-mother-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/adopted-in-1973-reunited-with-mother-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted in 1973, reunited with mother in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Source: http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com<\/a><\/div>\n

Published: Thursday, Nov 18, 2010, 3:50 IST
\nBy Mayura Janwalkar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA<\/p>\n

Mother\u2019s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
\n\u2014Marion C. Garretty, American author<\/p>\n

When Arun Dohle, India-born German national, started on his mission to find his biological mother, it seemed an impossible task. But after 17 years of litigation and connecting several dots, thirty-seven-year-old Dohle was reunited with his mother in Pune on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d Dohle said, struggling to express his feelings. \u201cI am very happy but I could not talk to her too much as I don\u2019t speak Marathi.\u201d Sitting face-to-face in a restaurant with his mother was emotional but a rather composed rendezvous.<\/p>\n

Dohle was two months old when an unsuspecting German couple Michael and Gertrude Dohle adopted him in 1973. Dohle contested in court that he was given in adoption without his mother\u2019s consent. He alleged that his adoptive parents were friends of NCP leader Sharad Pawar\u2019s brother Pratap, who facilitated his adoption. Curious about his roots since the age of 14, he returned to India first at the age of 20.<\/p>\n

After Wednesday\u2019s meeting, his apprehensions appear to have been put to rest. But his joy of seeing his mother is mixed with an underlying anger. \u201cSince 1993, all that Arun asked for was to know who his mother was,\u201d Anjali Pawar-Kate of Against Child Trafficking, who was instrumental in locating Dohle\u2019s mother in Pune, said. \u201cHe was made to run from pillar to post and denied the information time and again. He is obviously angry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Supreme Court\u2019s permission in August to access records maintained by Kusumbai Motichand Mahila Seva Gram (KMMSG), Dohle got in touch with several people and finally to his mother, now in her sixties.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome common contacts and a lot of running around led me to Arun\u2019s mother\u2019s brother,\u201d Pawar-Kate said. \u201cI had to take him in confidence and explain the situation. The KMMSG records had only her name and the address of 1973.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not speak too much,\u201d Dohle said. \u201cShe was holding her tears back and trying to stay calm. I did not feel like asking her any questions. Dohle is scheduled to fly back to Germany on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis aunt (mother\u2019s sister-in-law) was more emotional,\u201d Pawar-Kate said. \u201cShe caressed Arun\u2019s face and told him that she always told his mother that he would return one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dohle\u2019s mother had surrendered him to the KMMSG because he was born out of wedlock. Over the years, the past has faded and she and her husband gave Dohle a warm welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mother retired four years ago from a government job,\u201d Pawar-Kate said. \u201cHer husband runs a motor driving school. They told Arun that he live with them when he is in India.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dohle, however, is upset with the indifferent attitude of the adoption agency. \u201cIt took just three months to trace my mother after knowing her name but their non-cooperation took away 17 years of my life,\u201d he said. On his next visit to India, Dohle wants to bring his seven-year-old twins to visit their grandmother.
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