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Letter From Nagpur Jail

 
sgtdjones 2017-11-12 11:36:55 

Letter From Nagpur Jail


In March, an Indian court sentenced a Delhi University English literature professor, GN Saibaba, to life imprisonment. His crime was having alleged connections with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Saibaba has been diagnosed with permanent post-polio paralysis of the legs; he is almost entirely dependent on others to perform basic functions. Yet since his sentencing, he has languished in solitary confinement, in Nagpur Central Jail’s notorious Anda Cell.

In an earlier letter to his wife, Vasantha Kumari, he wrote, “Already I am shivering with continuous fever. I do not have a blanket. I do not have a sweater/jacket. As temperature goes down excruciating pain continuously in my legs and left hand increases. I am living here like an animal taking its last breaths.”


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