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An essay based on my experience inside Tihar. For the first time since my father’s death last year, I was happy that he was no more, for, at his age, he wouldn’t have been able to take this pain. And yet, as I sit down to write this, there’s no one I miss more because my life was always about talks with him. And the only person who would have truly appreciated and actually understood and enjoyed this essay was him. I dedicate this to him. A couple of months back, a completely illegal arrest with regard to a service tax issue made a magistrate send me to judicial custody in Tihar. At first, I was, of course, very angry, but by the time the formalities got completed, the anger changed into a quest for knowledge about a system that my father, Dr Malay Chaudhuri, and I had written extensively about in our 2003 book The Great Indian Dream (in the chapter ‘Indian Jails: Innocents Inside, Criminals Outside’). After all, how many people with an interest in jail reforms get a chance ...