Education is accorded a high priority in development policy in most countries, including India.
Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.
Persons testing positive for infection by HIV or showing evidence of AIDS provoke revulsion and fear in medical doctors. These reactions stem from the general knowledge that the diagnosis of AIDS is akin to a death sentence and the belief that a positive HIV test is, inevitably.
The statement, tucked away in one of the many thick Agrawal Samaj magazines I had been perusing, made me smile.
The Times of India dated 13 January 1994 featured on its front-page news of a tragic event. ‘A sixty-year old advocate... leaped to his death from the eighth floor of the Bombay Hospital and died of multiple injuries... (This followed) the revelation that he was HIV positive ...