India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatised and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly discussing the facts around HIV, and keeps them from getting treatment. Stigma 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 groundbreaking anthology, some of India’s best known writers go on the road to tell the human stories behind the epidemic and get to know this other: the trucker who makes his punishing all-night journeys; the disaffected youth in the Northeast, many of whom are now injecting drug users; the sex workers from coastal Andhra Pradesh, reputed as the most coveted in the trade; and the housewives who have unknowingly contracted the disease from their husbands. 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 will show you a side to India rarely seen before.