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AIDS Jaago: Beyond pamphlets and preaching
When Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Santosh Sivan and Mira Nair make films on HIV-related themes you don’t get standard fare about struggling prostitutes or helpless drug abusers. You get films about hunger – sexual and emotional – and the sex we have but cannot always voice, says Indira Maya Ganesh Read more
 
HIV and the grand narrative recast
AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, a collection of 16 essays on HIV-related themes by some of India’s top writers, combines lucid writing and rich detailing with thorough research, says Nirupama Sarma Read more
 

AIDS in the Kannada press: a new subject, a new vocabulary
HIV/AIDS has a definite presence in the Kannada press today, as training, information and sensitisation for journalists has improved Read more
 

Stories from a crisis
There is a whole body of literature and cinema about HIV/AIDS in the West since the 1980s. Why has so little attention been focused on the epidemic by Indian writers and filmmakers? Read more