It is not easy to write about the scholar and activist Mahesh Raut without sorrow and rage. Raut was a fellow of Prime Minister’s Rural Development programme; it has been five years since he was arrested on June 6, 2018. He is the youngest prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, currently awaiting the mercy of the judiciary for bail in Taloja central jail. His health has been deteriorating in prison.
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It will be imprudent and immoral to write about Mahesh Raut without recalling the circumstances which have been keeping him prison, and above all it would usher in the evil of cowardice. These very circumstances are now articulating the macabre events unfolding in the tribal areas of Manipur which augur what may spread soon to different corners of India; the atrocities against the lower caste people and Adivasi (tribal) people which are recurring across the country;
by Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan
19/06/2024