Foreword: Captive imagination
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o Among the many telling stories that Varavara Rao narrates in these brilliantly written prison letters is that of an illiterate prisoner who squats by a heap of newspapers each of which he holds in his hands and then stares blankly at for a long time. Asked about it, he says that [...]
Creativity at its best – made in prison
Countless are the prisoners who wrote in their dingy cells what turned out to be eminently readable and, at times, epoch making literature. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, both prolific writers, wrote extensively when they were imprisoned by the British.