Mumbai: Civil rights activist and author Anand Teltumbde never thought he would ever be writing a prison memoir. He also never thought he would ever see the inside of a prison.

On Thursday, as Teltumbde spoke about his book, ‘The Cell and the Soul’, in his book launch at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, he thanked the government for the opportunity, for the “unexpected reward”.

“I was born an anti-establishment man. The world, fraught with injustice, has been unacceptable to me since I gained my consciousness,” said Teltumbde, who spent 31 months in Taloja jail in connection with the Maharashtra Police’s probe into the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence . Show Full Article

As Teltumbde grew up, his professional life as an academic and a scholar quickly overshadowed his activism.

“I

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