13 years: A Naxalite's Prison Diary

Author:

Ramchandra Singh

Publisher:

Navayana

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Publisher

Navayana

Publication Year 2019
ISBN-13

9788189059835

ISBN-10 9788189059835
Binding

Hardcover

Language (English)
September 1970. Ramchandra Singh enters the hardest district jail in utter Pradesh as a Naxalite undertrial. Barely twenty, his life of expanding prospects—in studies, politics and love—is reduced to the horizon of a life Term. The odds are stacked against the survival of his humanity and imagination, but Singh regenerates his gifts of empathy, humour, reflection and, above all, language a secret diary smuggled out with the help of friends. A singular record of recent history and of individual witness, Singh’s prison diary, newly expanded, appears in English for the first time. Offering unprecedented intimacy with the everyday life of the imprisoned everyman, Singh challenges us to look without flinching and question our assumptions about crime and punishme

Ramchandra Singh

Ramchandra Singh (1949–2018), of Bangarmau village in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star, and served on its Central Committee. He was part of the editorial board of Red Star Monthly (Hindi).
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