Why Do You Fear My Way So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison

Saibaba, G N

ISBN 10: 9354471803 ISBN 13: 9789354471803

Published by Speaking Tiger Books, 2022

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Title: Why Do You Fear My Way So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9354471803
ISBN 13: 9789354471803
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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In the afternoon of 9th May 2014, a posse of policemen stopped a car in Delhi and pulled

out a wheelchair-bound man on his way home from work. He was then flown to Nagpur,

where he was arrested under UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act), the draconian

anti-terror law. His wheelchair was damaged as he was hauled up and thrown into the

police vehicle and the nerves of his left hand were injured, an infection that later spread

and rendered both his hands virtually useless.

This man was G.N. Saibaba, professor of English at Delhi University, scholar, writer and

human rights activist. In the eyes of the Indian government, he was a dangerous threat

to the State, accused of 'waging war against the nation'. In March 2017, the Gadchiroli

Sessions Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for alleged links with a banned

organisation, CPI-Maoist. Saibaba's appeal against the judgement, challenging the police

evidence and witnesses, has been pending in the Nagpur High Court for five years.

Meanwhile, he is kept in solitary confinement, denied the medical care he needs.

What would cause government agencies to take such an action against a man paralysed

by polio from the age of five, suffering from 90 per cent disability as well as a cardiac

condition and chronic and severe spinal pain?

Born into poverty in the town of Amalapuram in Andhra Pradesh, Saibaba overcame his

disability to top his university and become a highly regarded professor. From his student

days, he has also been engaged in activism on behalf of victims of poverty and state

violence, and played a significant role in the campaign against Operation Green Hunt, the

notorious paramilitary offensive aimed at dispossessing Adivasi people of their habitat by

force.

Is this what makes him a 'terrorist' in the eyes of the State?

Even as human rights organisations across the globe demand an end to his detention,

Saibaba continues to believe in the possibility of a better world. The poems and letters

in this book convey his innermost thoughts and feelings-anguish, hope, resistance, and

resilience-and a vision of a just, equal and humane India that we all deserve and need.

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