Aditya Tiwari, Pune, software engineer, 29: Father to Avnish, who was adopted in January 2016

'I told my wife, he is not your responsibility'
"I think Sushmita Sen inspired me when she adopted two daughters. In 2014, I was at an orphanage in Bhopal on Father's Day, distributing sweets. The staff told me that they had a good record; several kids had found homes in the last few months. But one of them was meeting repeated rejection. It was a four-month-old child with special needs. He suffered from Down's Syndrome. At the home they called him 'paagal'. He had holes in his heart, had a problem with his eyes, and couldn't walk. I decided he will be my son.