pranay dutta aids activist calcutta world tour attending aids conferences europe asia america pranay dutta understand secretary sonata foundation calcutta spread aids awareness west bengal india music documentaries performing arts theory aids awareness print media bound failure india majority affected people illiterate thought message spread music performing arts greatest impact discussions pranay told numerous incidents aids affecting poor indian population struck fact disease surreptitiously spreading educated urban middle class told incidents well-to-do middle class families affected attempts hush people early half twentieth century people infected leprosy similar fear social back lash disease infected immediately branded immoral social outcast exist social elite middle class family immune poor man's disease pranay interviews voice america people society care family infected difficult make aware pranay learned write plays requested write play issue thought started delving research contacted couple medical practitioners deal aids intention writing play deals issue aids wanted bigger canvas canvas lives immigrants country intertwined friends family india back history aids story india films philadelphia plays angels america depict social apathy aids victims quite vividly person encountered situation close proximity encounter time space quite painful evolved play banaprastha retirement play banaprastha tells story senior virologist parijat returns india retiring medical practice years find peace tranquility solace family friends discovers nemesis hide play multiple levels depicts rapid change economic social cultural life happening india today effects globalization drastic person parijat perception native land unchanged time left arrives city youth finds difference middle-class life york kolkata process rude awakening encounters nemesis human immunodeficiency virus finds virus climbed social ranks infiltrating middle class dreadfully finds so-called educated enlightened society state denial refuses deal disease happen early days career states play written time frame revised reached current form rapid dealing disease india main reasons revision bula-di unknown entity calcutta buladi cute doll spreading aids awareness gentle aids awareness long years make lasting impact join cast crew banaprastha edison valley playhouse edison show solidarity people globe fighting epidemic times 