NEW DELHI: Bill Gates throughout certainly one of his a number of visits to India as a part of the AIDS prevention programme of the Gates Foundation could not cling back his tears on hearing the tale of a sex employee whose daughter committed suicide after being pressured and ostracised by means of her schoolmates, says a new e-book.
Ashok Alexander, who headed the Gates Foundation's HIV/AIDS prevention programme Avahan for over 10 years, has pop out with a e-book “A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, management and Courage from India's Sex Workers” wherein he talks concerning the country's sex staff, their lives, how India is a good fortune tale within the epidemic and what management abilities and existence lessons can be learnt from them.
The author mentions true stories of the lives of sex staff in India which might be about discovering hope and redemption amid heartbreak and melancholy.
During their visits, Bill and wife Melinda had the ability to fully close out everything extraneous and concentrate on the group of sex staff, the author says.
"They sat cross-legged on the floor, facing the community members who were sitting in a small circle. Melinda asked some of them if they would relate their stories. All the tales were sad ones - of rejection, utter poverty, and then somewhere a spark of hope. They were brutally honest and raw."
One of the stories is about an incident that took place throughout Gates' consult with to India within the early 2000s. A lady associated with Gates how she had hidden the fact that she was a sex employee from her daughter, who was then in highschool.
When her classmates discovered the reality, they relentlessly teased, pressured and ostracised the woman, who soon went into deep depression.
"One day her mother came home to find her child hanging from the ceiling fan, and a note left behind saying she could not take it any more. I noticed that Bill, next to me, had his head down and was crying quietly," Alexander recollects within the e-book, published by means of Juggernaut.
When Alexander left a high-profile corporate process to move Avahan in 2003, he was plunged into an India far got rid of from the relaxation zones he had lived and worked in all his existence.
It was a grinding place where girls offered themselves for Rs 50 and 14-year-olds injected medicine. It was the shadow global of transgenders and of young gay males in a country that criminalised same-sex love then.
It was the strange global of truckers, lonely journeymen along forgotten highways. Above all, it was a place where valiant battles for a barely respectable existence had been being fought every day.
Ashok Alexander, who headed the Gates Foundation's HIV/AIDS prevention programme Avahan for over 10 years, has pop out with a e-book “A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, management and Courage from India's Sex Workers” wherein he talks concerning the country's sex staff, their lives, how India is a good fortune tale within the epidemic and what management abilities and existence lessons can be learnt from them.
The author mentions true stories of the lives of sex staff in India which might be about discovering hope and redemption amid heartbreak and melancholy.
During their visits, Bill and wife Melinda had the ability to fully close out everything extraneous and concentrate on the group of sex staff, the author says.
"They sat cross-legged on the floor, facing the community members who were sitting in a small circle. Melinda asked some of them if they would relate their stories. All the tales were sad ones - of rejection, utter poverty, and then somewhere a spark of hope. They were brutally honest and raw."
One of the stories is about an incident that took place throughout Gates' consult with to India within the early 2000s. A lady associated with Gates how she had hidden the fact that she was a sex employee from her daughter, who was then in highschool.
When her classmates discovered the reality, they relentlessly teased, pressured and ostracised the woman, who soon went into deep depression.
"One day her mother came home to find her child hanging from the ceiling fan, and a note left behind saying she could not take it any more. I noticed that Bill, next to me, had his head down and was crying quietly," Alexander recollects within the e-book, published by means of Juggernaut.
When Alexander left a high-profile corporate process to move Avahan in 2003, he was plunged into an India far got rid of from the relaxation zones he had lived and worked in all his existence.
It was a grinding place where girls offered themselves for Rs 50 and 14-year-olds injected medicine. It was the shadow global of transgenders and of young gay males in a country that criminalised same-sex love then.
It was the strange global of truckers, lonely journeymen along forgotten highways. Above all, it was a place where valiant battles for a barely respectable existence had been being fought every day.
When an Indian sex worker's tale brought Bill Gates to tears!
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December 01, 2018
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