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100% original used books in good condition at half the price, with minor signs of usage.
No pen/pencil marks and the condition is Good.
About the Book:
Sixteen stories, sixteen lives India is already home to 5.2 million HIV cases?outnumbered only by South Africa. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatised and shrouded in denial. In this unique anthology, sixteen of India’s best known writers go on the road to uncover the country’s AIDS epidemic: the trucker who makes his punishing all night journeys; the disaffected youth in the Northeast, many of whom are now injecting drug users; and the housewives who have unknowingly contracted the disease from their husbands. William Dalrymple meets the devadasis, many of whom have become victims of HIV; Kiran Desai goes to meet the coveted sex workers of coastal Andhra; Sunil Ganguly returns to his old haunt, Sonagachhi; Salman Rushdie spends a day with the hijras of Bombay; Sonia Faleiro looks at the destructive nexus between the police and sex workers; and Shobhaa De writes about when AIDS came home. Together the pieces make up a complex?and gripping?picture of AIDS in India: who it’s affecting, how and why.
Author : Various
Publisher ? : ? Random House India (1 January 2008)
Language ? : ? English
Hardcover ? : ? 352 pages
ISBN-10 ? : ? 8184000391
ISBN-13 ? : ? 9788184000399
