Sush goes the Gisele Bundchen way! And, a new Adoption Scandal.

A little over half a year ago, supermodel Gisele Bundchen made this controversial statement:

“Today no one is a virgin when they get married … show me someone who’s a virgin!”

Now, almost like the Hindi movies she acts in, our very own super Sushmita Sen, makes an almost “inspired” statement:

“no Indian has chastity or virginity any more, and having a pre-marital or post-marital affair is not wrong in society nowadays.”

Gisele found her kicking up a controversy with the Catholic Church, Sushmita Sen had a PIL filed against her (for “obscenity and lewd sexual comments”) by the seemingly more vigilant (hah!) moral police in our country.

I do not agree with Sushmita’s comments, the same way I didn’t agree with Gisele - but if there are several things I admire Sush for, one of them being her courage as a single woman to adopt a child.

Coincidentally, we were discussing this at a party last night - Sush’s single mother adoption and in general, how difficult it is to adopt a baby from India, especially for NRIs. I found out that apparently our over-populated country has more people wanting to adopt and less children available for adoption. There’s also apparently a long wait list for couples wanting to adopt babies.

Then today I find out about India’s CARA (Central Adoption Resource Agency) - who are ironically the agency established to regulate adoption procedures and make sure there is no corruption - themselves embroiled in a scandal.

Perhaps it’s not that children aren’t available for adoption. Maybe, like almost everything else in our country, they’re available if you have the money?

Tags: Adoption, CARA, Central-Adoption-Resource-Agency, Controversy, Gisele-Bundchen, NRI, Scandal, Sushmita-Sen, Virgin, Virginity