A stirring read, revealing how the poor and dead from India keep the red market bubbling in the developed world
Carney sometimes even becomes part of the red market. In Tirupati, he offers his hair to the temple which sells it to beauty parlours abroad; in the US, he turns himself in for a trial for a Viagra spinoff, ending up with an “unsexy combo” of a splitting headache and a throbbing erection.
Carney argues forcefully for lifting the practice of keeping ‘donors’ anonymous, to prevent middlemen from cornering most of the revenue. Like the farm-to-fork mechanism that helps consumers track what they eat, should not consumers of body parts know where their human spares come from? A stirring read, revealing how the poor and dead from India keep the red market bubbling in the developed world.