Karma Sutra - Confession of a Street - Softcover

Language: English
Pages: 204
About The Book

Karma Sutra is a powerful document of the Indian street - a journey into the murky urban underbelly. It tells the stories of those who live on - and off – the street, and amazing cast of characters that includes sex workers, bar girls, hijras, Devadasis, drug addicts, runaway, migrants, hustlers, the homeless, the dying , the abandoned ...

Pulsating with raw realism and energy, the book tells gripping, heroic stories of hearbreak and hope, of exploitation and the will to survive. The stories echo the vibrance of George Orwell’s classic description of poverty and low-life in Down and Out in Paris and London, so that one can actually smell and feel the street, and all its risks and dangers.

Rajendar Menen, a journalist who has pounded Mumbai’s streets fearlessly for many years as part of his work on HIV AIDS, often walking on the wild side, something on a razor’s edge, leaves on stone unturned - and no eye dry - as he talks to those fighting for their daily survival. In doing so, he opens the window on an India less examined.

 

About The Author

Rajendar Menen is a senior journalist who has been published in several countries. He began his career with The Times of India in Mumbai. He has launched and edited magazines, written four books on different aspects of healing, and freelanced for organizations such as the BBC, UNFPA, France 2, Gulf News, Ray of Hope, and Teacher's Training Centre, Tralee, Ireland. He has co-authored books on AIDS and prostitution in South Asia, and edited three journals on the technical and human aspects of HIV/ AIDS. The street is his muse. He lives and works in Mumbai.

 

Preface

I have been on the street most of my life. I am still on the street.

It's been a deliberate deci