About the Book: From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
Some prisoners pray, some weep, some just put down their heads and work
themselves weary. Sudha Bharadwaj watched through the bars of her cell, and she
wrote. This is her remarkably granular account of the world of women prisoners
in Yerawada Jail in Pune.Bharadwaj was incarcerated here, in a high-security
wing called PhansiYard, from November 2018 to February 2020. She takes us
through jail life, her own and the other womens, from one season to the next,
weaving in lively portraits of her fellow prisoners, their children and even
their pets, and reflecting