At three days old, his life rested in the arms of a stranger.

In a shelter in Nagpur, a newborn was left behind with no note, no name, no map of what lay ahead. A nurse picked him up, fed him, soothed him, and did one quiet, lasting thing. She gave him a name. Falgun, after the month he was born.

That small act of care became the first thread in a story that would stretch across continents and decades.

Adopted soon after, Falgun grew up in the Netherlands with a loving family who gave him stability,........

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