Story of a Modern Karna.

Story of a Modern Karna. In Mahabharat Karna was secretly born to an unmarried Kunti in her teenage years, and fearing outrage and backlash from society she abandoned the child , instantly . Till the out break of the epic war Karna was ignorant of the identity of his real mother. Here is a prototype modern story of another Karna . Born out of wedlock and abandoned as a three-day-old baby in Nagpur, Falgun Binnendijk, now Mayor of Heemstede in the Netherlands, has come to India in search of his biological mother. Forty years on, he came to the city of his birth for the third time, hoping to trace his mother who left him at an Orphanage . He was adopted by a Dutch couple . Raised in the Netherlands, Falgun went on to build a life defined by public service, eventually entering politics and being elected Mayor of Heemstede, 30km off Amsterdam. He first visited India in 2006, when he was 18 years old. He travelled as a tourist, exploring the country, including south India. Falgun says he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. "People would walk up to me and start speaking in Hindi. They assumed I was Indian." That trip planted a deeper curiosity about his origins. For several years, the curiosity remained alive, until Falgun finally felt the calling. Another major catalyst was his reading of the Mahabharata, in which the character of Karna and his relationship with Kunti held a special place in his heart. "Every Karna deserves and must have the right to meet his Kunti," he says.However, the search for his roots remained unresolved. During this visit, govt officials and his team led by a senior district administration official, traced a retired nurse who worked in the orphanage at the time of his birth and had given him his name. . But he is still away from tracing his mother and thus the search for Kunti by Karna is incomplete.