India, Sept. 20 -- Noted social activist Anand Teltumbde entered the Taloja Central Prison as accused number 10 in the Bhima Koregaon case in 2020 and spent 31 months as an undertrial until he was released on bail. As an intellectual stripped of his freedom, he lays bare the chilling realities of India's prisons in his gut-wrenching prison memoir. With chapters titled We Lost Stan, Jai Bhim Syndrome and Posco's Dalit Victims, The Cell and the Soul is a descent into the heart of India's carceral state, ripping open the belly of the beast - the prison industrial complex - and exposing the brutal, pulsating injustice within. From the echoing silence of his cell, Teltumbde writes in tender and searing prose of the criminalisation of dissent and of the relentless grind of injustice. This is a raw, unvarnished testament of a man imprisoned for his convictions....