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Kshitij Ke Us Par
Hashiaye Par Latka Bhavishya – Himachal Pradesh Ke Karavason Se Niklee
Kavitayan
She has been working in Himachal Pradesh and has continued the good work that she began in Tihar. While it is unreasonable to expect grown human beings, some of them convicts, to suddenly become reasonably good poets, yet when a prisoner like Dev Kumar expresses his pain in poetry at unwittingly becoming a criminal, one can be sure that at the end of the tunnel there is light for him. There are a few poems that might appear frivolous, but at least they testify to the vibrant morale that a creative activity has spread. A number of pages are also devoted to the editor’s work in Tihar and hence also the poetic work not only from the inmates of that jail but also of those who are outside but were inspired and moved by the lives of prisoners.
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Saroj Vasishth has been
working with the inmates of jails for quite some time now. She has,
during the course of her interaction, seen how creativity even in
prisoners can transform their beings. One need not be as expressive and
intense as Bhadhur Shah Zafar was when incarcerated but expression of
emotions in a medium hitherto unexplored by individuals does release
positive energy. Her efforts in Tihar Jail, New Delhi are well
chronicled and the resultant poetic work of some of the prisoners
suggests to what might have been.