A postcard by Bhawna from New Delhi proposes to open our minds about child adoption.

According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), India has 29.6 million orphaned and abandoned children. And of these, roughly half a million children, only a fraction finds its way into family care because adoption rates in India are abysmally low. Ironically, while on the one hand there are millions of children without parents, on the other, there is an increasingly rising number of infertile couples for most of whom adoption is the last choice. This means that there needs to be a huge readjustment in the government’s focus on child development because currently millions of children are being wasted and denied a future of opportunities to realise themselves.