How Indian jail authorities prevent political prisoners from communicating with their loved ones

24/5/2022

Dear Dada,

I thought of beginning this letter by some good oldfashioned backscratching. One of my new friends who is doing an LLM at SOAS and is from India was telling me about his experience of working with death row prisoners in Yerwada Jail. He used to work with this organisation called Project 39A that does legal work around the death penalty. Many of the convicts he would come to visit in Yerwada were part of your learning groups! He was describing the change he could see in their approach and interactions with him as a result of your classes. They even had started asking him more questions about the progress of their cases. He was very appreciative of the support you were giving those prisoners. I personally was pissing with pride when I heard this. It was very heart-warming to know that the initiatives you had taken up had led to such tangible changes in the lives of the people around you. It is so inspiring to see how you in the midst of such a terrible situation also continued your work of helping and guiding others. Chalo, now backscratching is done and I will proceed with the letter…

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