Journeys In The Night Untold Stories From India'S Best-Known Writers

India is already home to 5.2 million hiv cases - outnumbered only by south Africa. But an aid is still adisease stigmatized and shrouded in denial. In this unique anthology sixteen of India’s best known writers goon 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 whohave unknowingly contracted the disease from their husbands. Kiran desai visits a village of sex workers in Andhra Pradesh aman sethi hitches a ride down nh31 with a trucker siddharth deb hangs out with manipur’s disaffected youth william dalrymple meets the devdasis of belgaon nalini jones writes about an unexpected love story sunil gangopadhyay visits his old haunts in sonagachi salman rushdie spends a day with mumabai’s hijras jaspreet singh haunts a Delhi orphanage sonia faleiro on why the police and the sex workers are partners in crime nikita lalwani on the man who took on supreme court amit chaudhuri meets some unsung heroes C S lakshmi writes about the secrets women keep siddharth dhanwant sanghvi recounts the last days of a young filmmaker mukul kesavan meets the men leading double lives shobhaa de on the death of the family driver vikram seth on the real story behind a poem he wrote together the pieces make up a complex and gripping picture of aids in India who it’s affecting how and why.