Re: Commentary on Indian response to 4 million HIV+?

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum:

I agree with the moderator's comments that AIDS is a politicised disease.

Disease does not take place in a vaccuum-- it takes place in a social and

political environment where social and political factors and policies impinge on

how people will behave to confront the disease.

We have a great democracy consisting of close to a billion people and a diverse

population in terms of religion, langugage, caste and so many other factors. We

have maintained the democratic structure in a continent where dictatorship is

the norm. We have proved ourselves -- then why we as Indians or India lovers are

so defensive that we cannot swallow the slightest deliberation about the

policies and politics aurrounding HIV/AIDS? Why such personal attacks against a

person who has been involved in HIV/AIDS services in India? To see his

deliberation as trying to govern the country just like the East Indian

company did, is a joke-- one must be kidding.

Sathi Dasgupta.

E-mail: <sathi_dasgupta@...>