Proud mama Sushmita Sen says she was moved to tears after reading an essay on adoption by her younger daughter Alisah. She shared a video of her reading it out in her classroom on Instagram and wrote, “She had me in tears!!! This magnitude of love, acceptance, security, purity and honesty... the divinity in her convictions... uffff! Just listening to her opens the heart!!!”
Sushmita’s partner Rohman Shawl also gushed at the post and praised both daughter and mother in the comments. “My Gabdu! So proud of this kid and the one who raised her so well!!” he wrote.
Alisah’s essay began with the lines: “I believe that you should adopt a child from the orphanage since you will have happiness in your family. After all, a child must have the right to live.” She went on to say that she believed that one should regard all children equally whether biological or adopted because “when you adopt, you give life in such as way that you save one.” Alisah also cited her mother Sushmita Sen and actor Sunny Leone as examples of people who inspire you to consider adoption. “There are people who have adopted kids out of sheer love, not to make a name. Sushmita Sen who adopted two baby girls and Sunny Leone who adopted one girl. So please be like these inspirational people who inspire almost the whole world to adopt a child. So adopt a child but out of love,” she wrote.
Sushmita Sen adopted her first daughter Renee in 2000, at the age of 24, followed by her second daughter Alisah in 2010. Speaking at an event in Hyderabad in August, Sushmita called her decision to adopt children a “the wisest decision” she made and not an act of charity but one of “self-preservation. “In the natural birth, the mother and the child connect through the umbilical cord but in adoption, the mother and the child are connected by this higher power, a connection that you cannot cut off. I have had the privilege of experiencing it twice. To become a mother who has given birth from the heart,” she said.
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