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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 was carried in the June 21-July 6 issue of Parsiana. I have memories of a jail in London. They gave me a two-month term. All I remember was that I was given a room in a dark kind of chamber. I was given hard labor and had to carry potato sacks. You can’t compare this with Indian jails. In fact, you can’t compare the jails in South......