Abdul Wahid Shaikh

Acquitted after nine years in prison in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, a prison rights activist reflects on the one piece of evidence that stood above all else: confession under Section 18 of MCOCA, and all that was taken from him.

Acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case, a prison rights activist reviews the prison memoir of another - a searing reading on intellectual stifling, of loosening faith in the judiciary, and why the Bhima Koregaon case is a landmark indeed.