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This country needs many more books like this one.--Arundhati Roy, author of Walking with the Comrades and The God of Small Things

A powerful eyewitness account of life in an Indian prison shows how abolition is necessary to achieve a democratic transformation of society.

In May 2007, Arun Ferreira, a democratic rights activist, was picked up at a railway station in western India, detained by the court, and condemned to prison for an expanding list of crimes: criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms, and rioting, among others added during his detention.

In one of the most notorious prisons in India, Arun Ferreira was constantly abused and tortured. Over the next several years, each of the ten cases slapped against him fell apart. At long last, Ferreira was acquitted of all charges. As he exited the prison, moments away from freedom, he was rearrested by plainclothes police. He never got to glimpse his family waiting for him just outside the prison gates.

In stark and riveting detail, Ferreira recounts the horrors he faced in prison--torture, beatings, the general air of hopelessness--and the small consolations that kept hope alive--strikes and solidarity among inmates. His memoir is a timely reminder that across the globe policing and incarceration are institutions in desperate need of being dismantled.

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Arun Ferreira gives us a clear-eyed, unsentimental account of custodial torture, years of imprisonment on false charges, and the flagrant violation of procedure that passes as the rule of law. His experience is shared by tens of thousands of our fellow countrymen and women, most of whom do not have access to lawyers or legal aid. This country needs many more books like this one.

Arundhati Roy, author of Walking with the Comrades and The God of Small Things

In this chilling account of the uses and abuses of the law by agencies of the state, Arun Ferreira describes the harrowing treatment faced by political prisoners in India today. He provides a deeply moving story of the bonds of solidarity that develop between prisoners from widely separated groups and social strata. This is a very different Discovery of India that demands our attention.

Partha Chatterjee, author of The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power and I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

Colors of the Cage is indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the failures of Indias criminal justice system. Arun Ferreiras firsthand testimony makes apparent the arbitrary and pernicious nature of the procedures governing the lives of political prisoners often subject to especially unlawful practices. Ferreira conveys with particular force the devastating effects of incarceration on families torn apart and abandoned to an uncertain future. His account of the ruinous effects of post-9/11 anti-terror laws is instructive and applies far beyond the Indian context.

Nermeen Shaikh, cohost of Democracy Now! and author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power

While the rightward-plummeting Indian state uses harsh incarceration and charges of anti-national to demonize minorities and silence any critics, social justice and human rights activists, journalists, or intellectuals who dare to challenge the cruelly iniquitous realities behind its development propaganda or contradict a brazenly dishonest partisan news media, new waves of resistance rise against Indias ever more openly triumphalist ethnonationalist-majoritarian violence, both physical and administrative. Anyone aware or affected should get the chance to hear from courageous people like Arun Ferreira; his stunning memoir reveals the poignant human texture as well as the political implications of his prison experience.

The need for such bearing of witness has only grown timelier. For readers in the West concerned about the rise of global fascism, and especially young readers in the South Asian diaspora seeking connections between their political-cultural contexts, accounts such as this one are crucial.

Maia Ramnath, author of The Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire and Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of Indias Liberation Struggle

Colors of the Cage

A Memoir of an Indian Prison

Arun Ferreira

Foreword copyright Naresh Fernandes 2014, 2021

Introduction copyright Siddhartha Deb 2021

Illustrations copyright Arun Ferreira 2014, 2021

This edition 2021 Common Notions

First edition published in India in 2014

Aleph Book Company

7/16 Ansari Road, Daryaganj

New Delhi 110 002

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

ISBN: 978-1-942173-13-7 (print)

ISBN: 978-1-942173-41-0 (ebook)

LCCN: 2020941306

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Common Notions	Common Notions
c/o Interference Archive	c/o Making Worlds Bookstore
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Cover design by Josh MacPhee / Antumbra Design

Layout design and typesetting by Morgan Buck / Antumbra Design

Antumbra Design www.antumbradesign.org

Printed by union labor in Canada on acid-free, recycled paper.

Contents

by Naresh Fernandes

by Siddhartha Deb

Dedicated to the thousands of political prisoners incarcerated throughout the country and to their dreams of a more just society that will raze the prisons to the ground.

Acknowledgements

Any expression of gratitude would be incomplete without appreciating the efforts of those who worked for my release.

To Dad, who never for a moment stopped believing in me until his end. To my mom, sister, brother, their families, and Jennywho spared no effort for my release despite the difficulties. Their support and encouragement will always remain invaluable. And to Akshay, for giving me the reason I needed to start sketching in prison.

Many thanks to P. A. Sebastian, Susan, Maharukh, and members of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights; those Friends of Arun and other well-wishers who campaigned for my release; Surendra Gadling, Anil Kale, Pradeep Mandhyan, and members of the Indian Association of Peoples Lawyers who defended me and continue to do so.

This book would not have been possible without the ever-willing help of Naresh and Vernon. Naresh, for painlessly making me relive the experience, extracting the most out of my pen, and for tirelessly and patiently helping me build the manuscript. Vernons contribution or rather participation has been indispensable. He took it up as his own.

Finally, a thanks to Jerry Pinto for all those pointers and comments, and to David, Aienla, Simar, and others of the Aleph team who, in many small and not so small ways, demonstrated a strong belief in the need to publish my book.

Foreword

Naresh Fernandes

I had long feared that Arun Ferreira was going to end up on the front pages. It had been more than a decade since Id seen him, but news of his activities would filter through his brother when I bumped into him on the street. Arun, hed told me, had devoted himself to community organizing in Vidarbha, the drought-prone region in eastern Maharashtra notorious for the frequency with which its farmers took their own lives. When, in the early years of the new century, the state intensified its campaign to quell all dissent against the greed-driven model of economic development it had chosen for India, it seemed only a matter of time before apostates like Arun would become victims of its zeal.

Still, this abstract dread for the safety of my college friend did nothing to prepare me for the shock of actually seeing his photograph in the newspapers one morning in May 2007or at least seeing an image of a squatting figure that the captions identified as Arun. Claiming that he was a dreaded Naxalite, the photographs showed four men on their haunches, at the feet of a triumphant posse of policemen in Nagpur. Hoods concealed the captives heads. Clearly, the Maharashtra police had not found it necessary to pay attention to the condemnation that swept the world upon the publication of the Abu Ghraib photographs.

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