Kiran Desai confronts migration, mortality and the coveted sex workers of coastal Andhra. Aman Sethi hitches a ride down National Highway 31 with a trucker. William Dalrymple meets the daughters of the Goddess Yellamma. Siddharth Deb hangs out with Manipur's disaffected youth, fighting more than heroin addiction and a separatist war. Sunil Gangopadhyay visits his old haunts in Sonagachhi. Salman Rushdie spends a day with Mumbai's transgenders. Amit Chaudhuri talks to the doctors who are fighting more than just AIDS. Sonia Faleiro explains why the police and the sex workers are partners in crime. Nikita Lalwani gets to know the man who took on the Supreme Court. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi on the last days of a Mumbai filmmaker. Mukul Kesavan meets the men living double lives. Shobhaa De tells of how AIDS came home.
