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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aAnand Teltumbde _9252377
245			_aCell and the soul _b: a prison memoir
260			_aNew Delhi _bBloomsbury _c2025
300			_a244 p. _bHB _c22x14cm
365			_a5464 _b₹559.00 _c₹ _d₹699.00 _e20% _f10-01-2026
520			_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			_aPrison life India _9251155
650			_aPolitical imprisonment and dissent _9251166
650			_aHuman rights India _9251167
650			_aCriminal justice system India _9251168
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