From : The HINDU
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CAPTIVE IMAGINATION -
Letters From Prison: Varavara Rao;
Penguin/Viking, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-
110017. Rs. 350.
The oxymoronic title ‘Captive Imagination' could not have been more apt. The 13 essays in this volume on the days he spent in prison compel the reader to empathise with the author, who eloquently portrays the helplessness of a prisoner when the state takes away the right to communicate with the outside world.
Varavara Rao, a poet and revolutionary who penned these essays, does not stop with detailing the physical suffering and hardship he underwent during the long periods of imprisonment. He goes on to show how the system could never shackle his imagination. So what if he has been confined to the four walls of the prison? His unflinching conviction and hope in the ‘New Democratic Revolution' is what sustained him.
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