Dr.Suniti Solomon’s comments and observations made in an international forum, without any concrete data is uncalled for.

Being a mother of two kids and working in BPO since 5yrs, her statement comes as a rude shock and sounds atrocious. Dr suniti probably forgets that Doctors and Nurses also huddle together during nights, they are young, they are sexually active, are they not High Risk for HIV or may be since they are from the medical fraternity such data is never sought. Her irresponsible, attention drawing lewd comments highlighted by News agencies is probably the only reason why such an article gets published. Newspapers should refrain from publishing such ill conceived, premeditated statement funnelled more out of jaundiced notion, clearly evident from the comparison made between the salary of a Govt Doctor and a BPO employee fresh out of college.

Such news though hurts the sentiments it cannot dampen the fire in the 1.3 Million (growing by the day) youth of this country employed in BPO’s

KIRAN UMESH

Male circumcision is far from having been accepted in the West as an anti-AIDS tool in its own countries, but is being touted internationally by the West-funded Dr Solomon as “the only tool” for India. Why?

Dr Solomon is “fine” with increasing sexual promiscuity in India because it a “recent liberal value”. Do her Western donors advocate increasing sexual promiscuity in their own countries? She seems to think abstinence is “conservative” and so “hampers” the only anti-AIDS tool she advocates for India – male circumcision! Why?

Moreover, female circumcision as an anti-AIDS measure, for which there appears to be some qualitatively comparable data, is being recommended neither by Dr Solomon (a woman) nor by any Western women themselves nor by Western agencies. Why?

It may be noted that “Solomon” is a name associated with religions that require or encourage male circumcision at birth. Therefore, almost all adult male circumcisions in India will necessarily be of Hindus, and never mind that circumcision “is likely to do more harm than good” (http://www.mgmbill.org/aids.htm).

It is easy to blame, as Dr Solomon does, “Hindu-majority India” for obstructing Western medico-pharma-commercial initiatives to save ourselves from a scourge that ravages the West, but “Hindus”, with long experience of rapacious Western colonialism, are certainly entitled to examine the teeth of Western gift horses.

When we learn there is an enormously lucrative and growing demand for human foreskins in Western markets with huge profits to be reaped by the West (http://www.norm-uk.org/where_do_foreskins_go.html), it is a reasonable inference that Western commercial interests and their agents in India see millions of uncircumcised Hindu males as as a harvest ripe for the cutting (pun intended).