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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a364.3092 _bANA/CE
100			_aAnand Teltumbde
245			_aCELL AND SOUL : Prison Memoir
250			_a1
260			_aNew Delhi _bBloomsbury _c2025
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500			_aNoted social activist Anand Teltumbde entered the Taloja Central Prison as accused number 10 in the Bhima Koregaon case and spent 31 months as an undertrial until he was released on bail. As an intellectual who was stripped of his freedom, he lays bares the chilling realities of India's prisons in his gut-wrenching prison memoir. Part memoir, part diary, Cell and the Soul is a descent into the heart of India's carceral state, ripping open the belly of the beast-the prison industrial complex-and exposing the brutal, pulsating injustice within. From the echoing silence of his cell, Teltumbde writes of a heartless state that criminalises dissent with political imprisonment, of the relentless grind of injustice, and the profound cost of speaking truth to power. His prison writing is but a synecdoche for thousands of nameless, faceless undertrials who languish in India's jails. This is a raw, unvarnished testament of a man incarcerated for his convictions, a powerful indictment of a democracy devouring its own. Rare is writing so tender and searing it dares us to confront the darkness within each of us and seek our own freedoms.
650			_aSocial problems and social services
650			_aCriminology
650			_aCriminals
942			_cLEN
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