The poems were written by Tihar jail inmates Seema Raghuvanshi, Aarti, Rama Chauhan and Riya Sharma. The poems deal with family, soul searching, emotions and life in prison.
Providing an insight into their lives, four women inmates of Tihar jail wrote 150 poems that were compiled into a book called Tinka Tinka Tihar, released in Hindi and English. However, to help women inmates of Yerwada jail find a voice through the book, the poems have been translated in Marathi, to be released by the director general of police (DGP), prisons, Bhushan Kumar Upadhaya at 11 am inside the women’s prison at Yerwada on April 21.
Mehta Publications will release the Marathi version of Tinka Tinka Tihar that has found a place in the 2015 Limca Book of Records. The original book was edited by Vartika Nanda and Vimla Mehra, Indian Police Service (IPS), former director general (DG), Delhi Prisons. Marathi author Manjiri Dhamankar translated the book in Marathi.
The poems were written by Tihar jail inmates Seema Raghuvanshi, Aarti, Rama Chauhan and Riya Sharma. The poems deal with family, soul searching, emotions and life in prison.
“The book came to me three years ago and it was one of the most fascinating books of poems. Through these poems, the women are venting out their emotions. You get a glimpse of what is going on in their minds and their thoughts are similar to that of any common man,” Dhamankar said.
She said, “We have a notion about jail and its inmates and often tend to believe that all inmates are criminals. It was while translating these poems that I felt a bond that they are also women who have the same feelings and that the only difference is they are in prison.”
It is the first book of collection of poems written by select women inmates of Tihar jail and was published in English and Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan. The book was released by Sushil Kumar Shinde, the then minister of home affairs, at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi in September 2013.
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Inmates are just like us, the ones who live in the outside world and the poems in the three books of Tinka Tinka Tihar, Tinka Tinka Dasna and Tinka Tinka Madhya Pradesh are evidence to this very notion. Prisons ought to be a place of change, not of punishment and when I come across such articles my belief in the approach of the Tinka Tinka movement that focuses on prison reforms, strengthens further. #vartikananda #tinkatinka #prison #jail
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I am really inspired by Tinka Tinka on how they are bringing the stories of inmates to us which no one has done before. Tinka Tinka has been constantly working towards prison reforms and in since last few years they have really managed to bring a lot of stories to the common people. The reforms done by Tinka Tinka is something very less people know about and even very less people have attempted it. The stories about prison inmates from Tinka Tinka book series Tinka Tinka Tihar, Tinka Tinka Dasna and Tinka Tinka Madhya Pradesh has its own feel. #tinkatinka #vartikananda #jail
Really inspired by the work of Tinka Tinka on how they are bringing the stories from prisons. Tinka Tinka has been constantly working towards prison reforms and in since last few years they have really managed to bring a lot of stories to the common people. The reforms done by Tinka Tinka is something very less people know about and even very less people have attempted it. The stories about prison inmates from Tinka Tinka book series Tinka Tinka Tihar, Tinka Tinka Dasna and Tinka Tinka Madhya Pradesh has its own feel. #tinkatinka #vartikananda #jail