The works written on the jail tour of Anti-incumbent politicians, Writers, Philosophers and thinkers are available in a large number in world literature. Talking about our country, during the Freedom movement, from Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi to Bhagat Singh, they had to endure jail torture.
During his jail visit, Nehru composed works like 'Discovery of India' and Gandhi 'My Experiments with Truth'. Although all these people were political prisoners and thus had many advantages in prison, but when a common man is put in jail without any crime, the details of what passes on him are very much in the form of book. Less is seen. In this sense, M Chandrakumar's work The Prison Diaries of an Ordinary Man looks different. M Chandrakumar through this book has become the voice of the voiceless, which no one listens.
Chandrakumar spent his life like this
Born in Coimbatore, Chandrakumar dropped out after passing his tenth. Impressed by the fascination and communist movements of film stars like Bruce Lee and MG Ramachandran, he began to spend a stray day with his three friends Ravi, Moideen and Nelson. Sometimes in a restaurant or sometimes in a shop, where I got the work done. The person who got the food ate and slept there. When I got time, I went to see the cinema.
Chandrakumar suddenly arrested with friends
In this bellow and fearless life of these four friends, there was a storm, which caused them to lose their trust in this system. One day, by breaking the shutter of a shop, someone stole some tape and clock. The police came to investigate and picked up all four of them for the theft and locked them in lockup. After this, the naked game of police brutality started with them, it was about to make a ruckus. The police used to say the same thing to them that they confess their crime and they insisted that they should not accept the crime they did not commit. After every denial, the degree of police torture would increase.
Book 'Lockup' written in jail
Based on these inhuman tortures, Chandrakumar composed a book called 'Lockup', on which a film has also been made in Tamil. Darun while grieving while in lockup, there was hope in one corner of the hearts and minds of these four that he would get justice from the judiciary. He was sent to jail after lockup. Five months passed while in jail awaiting a court date. Inside the jail, Chandrakumar and his friends encounter a world that only one can know about who is a victim. Here he realized that more order and freedom is inside the prison than the chaotic world outside.
Accepted without penalty
In view of the tendency among the prisoners to share each other's misery and the strong resistance to injustice against someone, a new attitude of humanism was born in them. He realized that those we despise as bad people are many times better than those outside the prison who call themselves civilized and cultured. Chandrakumar and his fellow prisoners suffered the biggest blow when they were produced in court after five months of jail torture. It was expected that the judge would release him, but in court he came to know that the judiciary is also helpless before the police. Because the judge also told him what the police was saying for the last five months that if you commit your crime then you will be released early. All four confessed their crime in front of the judge. They could have spent more time in jail than they could get for this crime. On this basis, the judge released him.
