India, Oct. 31 -- The haunting strains of Hum Dekhenge, Faiz Ahmed Faiz's timeless song of resistance, filled the auditorium at the Marathi Patrakar Sangh on Thursday evening, setting the tone for an evening of remembrance, reflection and resistance.

The occasion was the launch of The Cell and the Soul, a prison memoir by scholar and human rights activist Dr Anand Teltumbde, written during his incarceration in the Taloja Central Jail under the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case.

Published by Bloomsbury, the book was unveiled by Dr Bhalchandra Mungekar, former Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor and Congress Rajya Sabha MP, in the presence of senior advocates Mihir Desai and Dr Gayatri Singh. Also present were two men acquitted in the 2006...