Madhavankutty Pillai
It’s India’s most fabled jail that housed the notorious and the respectable, and where some prisoners were more equal than others and some executions were stranger than what was reported. Startling revelations of a man who witnessed their lives and last moments
Haunted rebels, nationalists on steroids, and a walk-and-talk man called Sri M
The guilt of Afzal Guru was not as evident as the State would have you think. And his dubious execution may not be the last such case
Even if Afzal Guru were not hanged, Kashmir’s integration with India would have remained patchy at best