سوترا ایدز: داستان‌های ناگفته از هند

In this groundbreaking anthology, sixteen renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world. India is home to almost 3 million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. Discrimination against HIV-affected individuals in hospitals, schools, and even among families is common, just as discussion about HIV and participation in prevention or treatment programs are not. In this riveting book, sixteen of India's most well-known writers go on the road to uncover the reality of AIDS in India and tell the human stories behind the epidemic. Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra Pradesh, where the sex workers are considered the most desirable; Salman Rushdie meets members of Mumbai's transgender community; William Dalrymple encounters the devadasis, women who have been “married” to a temple goddess and thus are deemed acceptable for transactional sex. Eye-opening, hard-hitting, and moving, AIDS Sutra presents a side of India rarely seen before. Library Journal AIDS has been known in India since the 1980s. In the ensuing decades, numerous alarms have been rung, but with a few exceptions the government, health establishment, and even the constantly vaunted new middle class have perpetuated misinformation, practiced outrageous discrimination, and made little effort to offer effective treatment or prevention to the millions of people affected by or at risk of the virus (estimates for the number of people currently infected in India range from 2 to 5 million). This anthology of new essays by the literary and journalistic elite of India is intended to raise consciousness. Aside from economist Amartya Sen's foreword, which speculates about economic effects and the question of personal responsibility, the essays are all personal stories that, despite the inclusion of famous authors (including Salman Rushdie), have no distinctive literary merit. The intent to counter the belief that AIDS happens to other people is weakened by the fact that most of the essays describe marginal or oppressed people who will seem exotic to middle-class readers. Recommended for academic collections and large public libraries.-Lisa Klopfer, Eastern Michigan Univ., Ypsilanti "India is home to almost three million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that leads to discrimination against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools, and even among families. Most importantly stigma fuels the belief that HIV is not our disease, but a disease of the other." "In this anthology some of India's best-known writers go on the road to tell the human stories behind the Indian epidemic and get to know this other: Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra Pradesh, where the sex workers are considered the most desirable; Salman Rushdie meets members of Mumbai's transgender community; William Dalrymple encounters the devadasis, women who have been "married" to a temple goddess and thus are deemed acceptable for transactional sex. These writers travel the country to talk to housewives, vigilantes, gay men living double lives, police, and sex workers. Together their stories make up a complex - and gripping - picture of AIDS in India: who it's affecting, how, and why. Eye-opening, hard-hitting, and moving, AIDS Sutra presents a side of India rarely seen before."--BOOK JACKET. "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. Mr x versus hospital y / Nikita Lalwani Night claims the Godavari / Kiran Desai Hello, darling / Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi Maarne ka, bhagane ka / Sonia Faleiro At stake, the body / C.S. Lakshmi The half-woman god / Salman Rushdie - Bhoot ki kahaanian / Jaspreet Singh Return to Sonagachhi / Sunil Gangopadhyay Nowhere to call home / Mukul Kesavan The lost generation of Manipur / Siddhartha Deb The daughters of Yellamma / William Dalrymple When AIDS came home / Shobhaa De Healing / Amit Chaudhuri A poem about AIDS / Vikram Seth The last of the ustaads / Aman Sethi Love in the time of positives / Nalini Jones. Illuminating the complexity and implications of the AIDS crisis in the developing world, sixteen noted writers shed new light on the problem in India in a collection of essays by Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, William Dalrymple, Vikram Seth, Nalini Jones, Amit Chaudhuri, and others. Original. 17,500 first printing.