AIDS Sutra
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AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India is an anthology
of writing telling the human stories behind HIV-AIDS in India
. The book has been published in collaboration with Avahan, the India Aids initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Proceeds from the book go toward educational opportunities for AIDS orphans in India.
The book features a foreword by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, an introduction by Bill and Melinda Gates
and essays by 16 contributing writers including Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai
, Vikram Seth
, Siddhartha Deb
, William Dalrymple, Amit Chaudhuri
, Sunil Gangopadhyay
, Nikita Lalwani
, Sonia Faleiro
, Aman Sethi, Mukul Kesavan
, Jaspreet Singh
, Shobhaa De, Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, Nalini Jones, and CS Lakshmi each of whom spent time in the field exploring one aspect of the Indian AIDS epidemic. The writers traveled the country to talk with sex workers, housewives, vigilantes, police and injecting drug users.
Photos accompanying the collection are by Prashant Panjiar and the book was edited by Negar Akhavi.
Aids Sutra is published by Random House India in August 2008, by Vintage UK in September 2008, and Anchor Books, US in October 2008. Currently it is available under the title Journeys In the Night from Random House India.
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
of writing telling the human stories behind HIV-AIDS in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The book has been published in collaboration with Avahan, the India Aids initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Proceeds from the book go toward educational opportunities for AIDS orphans in India.
The book features a foreword by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, an introduction by Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
and essays by 16 contributing writers including Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...
, Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
, Siddhartha Deb
Siddhartha Deb
Siddhartha Deb is an Indian author who was born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern India. He was educated in India and at Columbia University, USA. His first novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely...
, William Dalrymple, Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...
, Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay , is a celebrated Indian poet and novelist.-Early life:...
, Nikita Lalwani
Nikita Lalwani
Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1975 and raised in Cardiff, Wales. She studied English at Bristol University and her first book, Gifted, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. She was also nominated as Sunday Times Young...
, Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro, is an award-winning Indian reporter and writer. She grew up in New Delhi where she studied history at St. Stephen's College, and received her master's degree from the University of Edinburgh. While in graduate school, Faleiro started writing her first novel, The Girl, which was...
, Aman Sethi, Mukul Kesavan
Mukul Kesavan
Mukul Kesavan is an Indian writer and essayist. He studied History at the University of Delhi and later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he received his MLitt. His first book - Looking Through Glass received critical acclaim. He teaches social history at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. He's keen...
, Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef , and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He is a former research scientist who holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University...
, Shobhaa De, Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, Nalini Jones, and CS Lakshmi each of whom spent time in the field exploring one aspect of the Indian AIDS epidemic. The writers traveled the country to talk with sex workers, housewives, vigilantes, police and injecting drug users.
Photos accompanying the collection are by Prashant Panjiar and the book was edited by Negar Akhavi.
Aids Sutra is published by Random House India in August 2008, by Vintage UK in September 2008, and Anchor Books, US in October 2008. Currently it is available under the title Journeys In the Night from Random House India.