Rushdie, Kiran Desai bring out AIDS Sutra

AN ANTHOLOGY: AIDS Sutra aims to look into lives of the 2.4 million Indians who live with the problem.

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New Delhi: December 1 is World AIDS Day and here is a look at a book called AIDS Sutra, with 16 top writers from India pitching in to highlight the scale of the issue.

About 2.4 million Indians live with HIV/AIDS and the book, the anthology AIDS Sutra, aims to look into their lives to highlight some of the problems they face.

The book focuses on different communities across the country.

Some of the proceeds raised will go to AIDS charities. The Gates Foundation and publishers Random House brought together writers like Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie as well as journalists like Aman Sethi and Sonia Faleiro, and got them writing on truck-drivers and sex workers living with HIV/AIDS.

Salman Rushdie spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN on his contribution..

"They offered me two issues - the red light district and hijras (eunuchs). To be honest, I've been to the red light district. I felt I knew a little bit, whereas I don't know much about the hijra community. If you live in Mumbai, you have some experience of hijras around the place but it's obviously a very closed community and difficult to lift the lid on. So I thought if I got the opportunity to get inside that community a little bit, it could actually tell me something about Mumbai that I did not know before. That was interesting to me," says Rushdie.