01867nam a22002417a 4500 20260123114824.0 260113b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789369521883 AL English 364.3092 TELC Anand Teltumbde 252377 Cell and the soul : a prison memoir New Delhi Bloomsbury 2025 244 p. HB 22x14cm 5464 ₹559.00 ₹ ₹699.00 20% 10-01-2026 Noted 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. Prison life India 251155 Political imprisonment and dissent 251166 Human rights India 251167 Criminal justice system India 251168 ddc BK 240743 240743 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL SK 2026-01-10 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal-575014 559.00 1 364.3092 TELC 078022 2026-05-22 2026-05-12 11:25:53 2026-05-12 699.00 2026-01-10 BK