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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 discrimination against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools and even among families. In this ground-breaking anthology, sixteen of India's well-known writers go on the road to tell the human story behind the epidemic.William Dalrymple meets the devadasis ('temple women'), many of whom have become victims of HIV; Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra where the sex workers are considered the most desirable and Salman Rushdie spends a day with Mumbai's transgenders. These writers travel the country to talk to housewives, vigilantes, homosexuals, police and sex-workers and together they create a complex and gripping picture of AIDS in India: who it is affecting, how and why. Eye-opening, hard-hitting and moving, "AIDS Sutra" will show you a side to India rarely seen before. This anthology was produced in collaboration with Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780099526582
BY (AUTHOR) Panjiar, Prashant
PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing	PUBLICATION DATE : September 04, 2008
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Vintage
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 199 mm x 130 mm
WEIGHT : 334 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Society & Social Sciences

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