In The Isolation of the Anda Ward, We Dared To Sing, Writes Gautam Navlakha, Bhi ...

Summary of this article

• The author describes prison as a space that constantly swings prisoners between hope and despair.
  
• He says delays in the legal process and lack of medical care cause the deepest suffering.
  
• He recounts how small acts of defiance and solidarity helped ease the pain of incarceration.
  

‘‘Those who speak of humanity in this system




Are thrown into prison to acquaint them




With the vocabulary of ‘criminology’’’



—Varavara Rao, Schools and Prisons