A life dedcated to socialism earned
respect from police officers
Kobad Ghandy
These abbreviated and slightly edited excerpts of an interview with Kobad Ghandy from The Feared: Conversations With Eleven Political Prisoners by Neeta Kolhatkar, have been reprinted with permission from the author. The first instalment is carried in this issue.
I was wondering whether I would ever come out alive.
My last jail term was in Surat and I knew nobody in Gujarat. I got bail because the others were granted bail. The people handling my case and those of the others were mostly human rights lawyers. Actually, my sister (Mahrouk Vevaina) has been there for me and she paid my bail. She......