AIDS sutra
Subtitle: untold stories from India
By: with an introduction by Bill and Melinda Gates ; foreword by Amartya Sen ; photographs by Prashant Panjiar ; edited by Negar Akhavi
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780099526582
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); Patients; Social conditions; HIV-positive persons; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; HIV Infections
Description: "India is already home to almost three million HIV cases - outnumbered only by South Africa. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatised and shrouded in denial. In this groundbreaking anthology, seventeen of India's well-known writers go on the road to uncover their country's AIDS epidemic. William Dalrymple meets the devadasis ('temple women'), many of whom have become victims of HIV; Kiran Desai visits the coast of Andhra where the sex-workers are considered the most desirable and Salman Rushdie meets Indian transgenders. These writers travel the country to talk to housewives, vigilantes, homosexuals, police and sex-workers. Together they create a complex and gripping picture of AIDS in India: who it is affecting, how and why."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mr X versus hospital Y / Nikita Lalwani; title: Night claims the Godavari / Kiran Desai; title: Hello, darling / Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi; title: Maarne ka, bhagane ka / Sonia Faleiro; title: At stake, the body / CS Lakshmi; title: The half-woman god / Salman Rushdie; title: Bhoot ki kahaanian / Jaspreet Singh; title: Return to sonagachhi / Sunil Gangopadhyay; title: Nowhere to call home / Mukul Kesavan; title: The lost generation of Manipur / Siddhartha Deb; title: The daughters of Yellamma / William Dalrymple; title: When AIDS came home / Shobhaa De; title: Healing / Amit Chaudhuri; title: A poem about AIDS / Vikram Seth; title: The last of the Ustaads / Aman Sethi; title: Love in the time of positives / Nalini Jones.