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A couple months ago I wrote a post about sex work in Chennai. In the post I noticed that newspapers continually run stories about busting prostitution gangs, Kushboo's run in with the DMK and some research about the spatial distribution of red light districts around the city. People linked to the post around the Internet and even today it continues to draw visitors.

But what sort of visitors?

I run a simple tracking program on this website to see who is logging on and what they are reading and where they come from. While the number of hits has been declining since I stopped my daily updates, it amazes me how many people find my site through Google when they are obviously looking for something else.

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So, while this post could potentially enter the same keyword nexus to draw in one-handed typists from around the greater Chennai region, I would like to take the space at the end of my post to salute those erstwhile web-travelers and wish them good luck in their searches.

Revamped Photo Page

Five years ago my first SLR camera was stolen in the back alleys of Karol Bagh in New Delhi. Before then I used to take a lot of pictures, but I sort of lost heart until halfway through last year I finally shelled out the cash for a new digital SLR while trolling the grey markets in Malaysia. This meant that there was about a five year lull in my photo portfolio where I was shooting only on point and shoot cameras--so most of those pictures weren't really any good.

When I was putting together this website for the first time I realized that most of my shots were quite old, but I didn't yet have my new camera so it was rather pointless to put in recent pics. Well that has all changed. I recently downloaded JAlbum, a very easy to use web-gallery making program, and am beginning to post my recent photos online again.

Since I take a camera with me on almost every assignment I write I have a huge library of images from all across India. So if you are so inclined check out the photo-gallery page on my main website.

A New Car for $2000?

There are some obvious advantages to having a car in India rather than just a motorcycle. Cars offer protection from the smog, have the potential for AC, and can transport your friends in a sealed compartment. Not to mention that with a car you don't have to live in constant fear of being smushed by your neighbors on the road. I've been thinking about buying a car for a while, but have always been gagged by the price. If I'm only going to be in India for a few years then why invest the cash? Well today on Treehugger.com there was an article about a new collaboration between Nissan and Renault for a $2000 car. That's right. 1 lakh for an automobile.

A new car would cost roughly the same as the new Royal Enfield that I'm driving right now. It will have four doors and is projected to even pass a crash test. What's not to like? The plans are to begin releasing the cars in April of next year. I might just have to bite the bullet and get one if I can wait that long. And from the pictures, they sort of look like the new Maruti Swifts. Cool, huh?

Calcutta's Graveyard Gang Steals Skeletons

CNN had a report today about a team of grave robbers outside of Calcutta who have been stealing skeletons from graveyards and burning ghats and selling them to medical students and traditional healers.

Responding to a complaint about missing bodies the police happened upon what they are calling a "bone factory".

The Smoking Gun: Documenting the Kidney Trade

Yesterday I headed out into the field with my assistant Priya looking for hard evidence of the organ trade. Over the last several months I've interviewed dozens of people who have sold their kidneys through brokers at the city's best hospitals and yet the police have continued to do everything they can to not prosecute the case. They say that the 1994 transplantation of human organs act does not empower them to arrest kidney brokers or shut down hospitals. I've written on this problem in the past. As usual, the authorities that be will try anything they can not to uphold the law. More on this later.

In our search of two different slum areas Priya and I uncovered documents signed by doctors at Devaki hospital demonstrating that they preformed illegal surgeries. The documents, her health records, show that she used a forged name as well as the dates of the operation, attendants involved in the surgery, lab techs, drawings of her kidney and signatures from both doctors and hospital administrators. In other words, I have the smoking gun.

On the same trip I located the address of a broker living in a northern stretch of the city who lives in a mini-palace and everyone seemed to know who he was. When I asked a local coolie about him I got this reply "Everyone knows him. On this street, all the houses are his." This leads me to reconsider my assumption for earlier that brokers tend to be poor themselves and are taken advantage of by people higher up on the chain of corruption.

Does anyone care?

Probably not. I went to the police later in the day and told them what I had found and asked them to release some information to me about three brokers they had arrested two months ago. In most countries on earth (including Pakistan which has the same basic legal system) First Information Reports, or FIRs, are available to anyone who asks for them. The reports contain names and addresses of the people arrested as well as the charges they have been brought up on. It is important that these documents are open to the public or the police could arrest anyone they want to and no one would be able to find out about it. When I went the the police station four different officers said they were not obligated to release the FIR to me. Other journalists get FIRs with no problem. Obviously this is one of the prices I pay for being a foreign journalist.

Later when I was speaking to K. Thukkaiandi, IPS who is the Inspector General of Police, Crime he just shook his head and said point blank "I will not give a report to a foreign journalist." I pressed my case and said I had new information about criminal activity involving the kidney racket.

"We are not interested in prosecuting that case," he said sternly.

While that is fairly obvious by the way that the police and the corresponding departments in the ministry of health have handled the case so far, I was happy that he gave me at least one transparent piece of information.

I left the station without an FIR, but I have since retained a lawyer and am pressing the issue through the courts.

As for the broker, I will have more information soon.

Rape and Overcharge With a Smile

Three stories brewing about India's creaky, high-tech and dubiously ethical medical industry
are making me wonder if everything I have ever written that is positive about the medical care should be stricken from the record.

Cancer Patient Raped in Hospital (Tribune) - a sixteen year old cancer patient in a Bombay hospital was raped and impregnated while she was anesthetized and undergoing treatment. She never realized that she had been raped by the doctors or attendants until months later when she missed her period.

Treat Patients With Cheek:MK (Deccan Chronicle) Chief Minister Karunanidhi has come out in favor of better bedside manner in the states over crowded and ill-equipped hospitals. "It is the manner and the humane approach towards patients that bring credibility to the hospitals, not the state of the art equipment," he said. I assume this also means that doctors should, in the future, refrain from raping their patients.

"We Only Try to Provide Quality Care" (Deccan Chronicle, print only) Yesterday Vinodhini, a reporter at the DC, ran a story saying that hospitals in Chennai routinely schedule people for unnecessary tests in order to drive up corporate profits. Doctors are assigned a weekly quota for MRIs and other scans that they must sell to patients or possibly have their pay docked. This, of course, is why when a friend of mine who works at a local NGO had to take her co-worker to the hospital when she was suffering from shock was immediately carted towards the MRI machine and not immediately treated for her obvious--and potentially fatal--ailment.

Over the last year I have run several stories praising the research sector in India. Medical centers here are ahead of the curve on stem cell treatment and generic pharmaceutical manufacture, but from some reason patients are still being killed, raped and generally mishandled at even the best hospitals around the nation.

Somebody please make it stop.

Scott Tracker: Vol. 1

Wondering where I have been for the last two weeks? Well rather than just tell you straight out I thought it would be more fun to take you on a visual tour of my trip through Bihar and Uttar Pradesh with my old graduate school roommate Dan McNamara. I've posted a gallery online and happily left out any descriptions that could tell you exactly what is going on. However, you can see below that I did find one of Varanasii's famous government bhang shops (no, I didn't buy any). The striking thing to me about that shop is that is looks a lot nicer than the government wine shops in Tamil Nadu.

A Government Bhang Shop in Varnasii

Toy Hanuman

Bones behind the Morgue

I've been in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for the last week and a half doing research on a book. You are going to have to wait a little before I give you the plot summary, but suffice it to say that I'm hanging out in a lot of morgues and Buddhist temples. I've also been hijacked by the New York Times and National Geographic (television) to work on a couple stories so I haven't had a lot of time to post. Until now.

I have a single tantalizing find that I came across while snooping around behind the postmortem lab at the Gaya Medical College. Around the area there are hundreds of scraps of clothing that the doctors removed from their patients during autopsies and I wondered if perhaps there were other relics of their patients lying about. Directly to the rear of the lab I came across an open-pit well that had been partially sealed, but had a hole cut into the top for people to throw things in. I took a peek inside and saw the remains of at least one human body and articles of clothing from several people. I have no doubt that if I rooted around I would have found dozens of corpses. This immediately brought to my mind the Ratlam fetal bones incident a month ago where the remains of up to 80 infants were discovered behind a hospital mortuary.

I am not sure what the laws are pertaining to disposal of human remains in India, but I am fairly sure that the only people who are discarded like scraps of clothing behind a hospital would be powerless villagers and low-caste people who have no one to advocate for their rights. I told a dalit activist I know in Varanasii about it and he said he was going to look into the incident.

What this also leads me to believe is that discarded human remains are probably a lot more common than one would think behind hospitals in India. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that if you poked around your local government hospital long enough you would have a good chance of seeing similar things.

Photos: The first image is the front door of the postmortem lab at the Gaya Medical College in Gaya, Bihar. The second image is a bit difficult to decipher but if you click on it and blow it up you can clearly see what I believe to be a femur and part of a human pelvis that I found in behind the lab in an open well.