Eye-opening, hard-hitting and moving AIDS Sutra will show you a side to India rarely seen before.
India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease
stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly
discussing the facts around HIV and keeps them from getting treatment. Stigma
leads to discriminations against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools and
even among families. Most importantly, stigma fules the belief that HIV is not
out disease, but a disease of the other.
In this groundbreaking anthology, some of India’s best known writers go on the road to tell the human stories behind the epidemic and get to know this other: the trucker who makes his punishing all night journeys; the disaffected youth in the Northeast, many of whom are now injecting drug users; the sex workers from coastal Andhra Pradesh, reputed as the most coveted in the trade; and the housewives who have unknowingly contracted the disease from their husbands. Together their stories make up a complex – and griping – picture of AIDS in India: who it’s a affecting, how and why.
Eye-opening, hard-hitting and moving AIDS Sutra will show you a side to India rarely seen before.
KIRAN DESAI confronts migration, mortality and the coveted sex workers of coastal
Andhra. AMAN SETHI hitches a ride down National Highway 31 with a trucker. WILLIAM
DALRYMPLE meets the daughters of the goddess yellamma. SIDDHARTHA DEB hangs
out with Manipur’s disaffected youth, fighting more than heroin addiction
and a separatist war. NALINI JONES recounts an unexpected tale of falling in
love. SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY visits his old haunts in Sonagachhi. SALMAN RUSHDIE
spends s day with Mumbai’s transgenders. AMIT CHAUDHARI talks to doctors
who are fighting more than just AIDS. CS LAKHMI writes of the secrets woman
keep.
JASPREET SINGH befriends some AIDS orphans.
SONIA FALEIRO explains why the police and sex workers are partners in crime. NIKITA LALWANI gets to know the man who took on the Supreme Court. SIDDHARTH DHANVANT SHANGHVI on the last days of a Mumbai filmmaker. MUKUL KESAVAN meets the men living double lives. SHOBHAA DE tells of how AIDS came home.
VIKRAM SETH on the real story behind a long ago poem.
This book was produced in collaboration with Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
ISBN: 9788184000399
Pages: 334
Price: Rs.395/-
Selling Rights | Worldwide |
Packing Weight | 1 kg |
ISBN | 9788184000400 |
Page count | 334 |
Book Format | Hardbound |