Fictional account of HIV affected person In the Pink of Wealth

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A news article on Sumit Goshal's book " In the Pink of Wealth " follows the

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Hi all,

Has anyone read a novel called " In the Pink of Wealth " published last month by

Frog Books of Mumbai?

It is understood to have a female character who develops HIV infection after

having sex with multiple partners.

The story also seeks to perpetuate certain long-standing beliefs about relative

" safety " of the male partner. It talks about a young man who is exposed to the

HIV positive woman but does not contract the infection. Is this not a distortion

of facts?

I am interested to know what others thinks

Warm regards

Sumit

E-mail: <sghoshal@...>

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" I don't want my children to be doctors anymore! "

Sumit Ghoshal's book, In the Pink of Wealth, launched at the Press Club, Mumbai

Doctors practising in Mumbai and other metropolitan cities feel that they are in

a continuous state of siege to such an extent that some of them would like their

children to adopt any other profession but their own.

" I don't want my children to be doctors anymore! " This was what well-known

infertility specialist, Dr Aniruddh S Malpani, said in Mumbai on Thursday. He

was launching a new novel titled, In the Pink of Wealth, by Sumit Ghoshal.

" My parents were doctors, and I was quite happy to be one, " said Dr Malpani.

" Today's doctors are no longer in control of decisions that they take on behalf

of their patients. But, with the advent of health insurance and third-party

payment systems, the doctor is not only answerable to the patient, but also to

some bureaucrats or administrators representing the health insurance company. "

Echoing these sentiments, Dr S V Dagaokar, former vice-president of the

Maharashtra Medical Council, also observed that doctors in practice nowadays are

under a tremendous amount of pressure from various quarters.

Dr Dagaokar also said that doctors are needed in much larger numbers than what

are being produced in the country. " For a population of over 10 million in

Mumbai, we have just about 24,000 practising medicos; it is not a large number

by any means. "

These are also some of the aspects of the medical profession, which have been

highlighted in the novel In the Pink of Wealth, published by Frog Books, Mumbai.

Ghoshal, who has been a reporter with a number of mainstream newspapers in

Mumbai, has written extensively on hospitals, medicines and doctors for over 15

years. Talking about his work, Ghoshal said many of the episodes in the novel

were drawn from real incidents that happened in different hospitals in the city

at different times.

He also read out a particularly moving passage from the book, which described

the last day of work of a senior medical specialist who had been forced into

retirement.

Dr Arshad Ghulam Mohammed, ex-president of the Indian Medical Association,

Mumbai, also spoke on the occasion

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