Trauma and Trouble in Sonia Faleiro AIDS SUTRA: Untold Stories from India

Abstract

Healthy mind and soundbody are the outmost elixir of life. With the increasing of HIV/AIDS epidemic in the global circle, it has created an atmosphere of tightness. The transmission of the virus in the body is most likely due to unprotected sex, donating blood in improper institutions, using unsterilized syringe for injections and so on. The anthological book AIDS SUTRA: Untold Stories from India (2008) by Sonia Faleiro gives actual accounts of the forsaken predicament of the sex workers community who are infected with the life-threatening disease. They are treated as the marginalized group, often choosing aloofness for their misery. Many a times they are accepting untimely death committing suicide in a way to end their agony.  The inhibition of the virus in them inculcates a sense of psychic instability. The psychic imbalance marks an impression of emotional trauma in their mind. The paper attempts an understanding of psychic traumain AIDS SUTRA: Untold Stories from India. It depicts the painful plight of the Aids victim who are treated as subalterns, a mere marginalized section who are abhorred for their disease.