The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, a landmark collection of essays that presents a complex and gripping picture of the disease. Sixteen of India’s most well-known literary writers go on the road to tell the story of people affected by the epidemic and the stigma that surrounds them. “This book reveals the human side of the disease,” write Bill and Melinda Gates in their introduction to this groundbreaking anthology.
This project is a collaboration between the foundation’s Avahan initiative and Anchor Books. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to a fund to help children in India who have been affected by HIV/AIDS.
Highlights include Salman Rushdie’s encounters with the Hijras, members of a transgendered community in Mumbai, and William Dalrymple’s meeting with the Devadasis, courtesans “married” to a temple goddess who are now confronting an alarming rise in HIV/AIDS.
To learn more and buy the book, visit Anchor Books’ web site.
Reviews of AIDS Sutra
'AIDS Sutra' Challenges Widespread Denial In India
National Public Radio
October 30, 2008
Sex and the Poor
The Economist
October 28, 2008
