Updated On: 24 January, 2022 11:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Ajaz Ashraf
mid-day’s columnist speaks to the activist who is out on bail in the Koregaon Bhima case

Sudha Bharadwaj was arrested on October 28, 2018 for alleged involvement in 2018 Koregaon Bhima violence
I Spoke to Sudha Bharadwaj for two hours over the phone. Out on bail after spending over three years in jail, where she had been packed off for her alleged role in the 2018 Koregaon Bhima violence, I presumed a mournful, weary voice would narrate her experiences during incarceration. Or a voice raging against those who scripted her arrest on October 28, 2018. But Bharadwaj can laugh as few can. She laughed at how, on stepping into Pune’s Yerwada Jail, she was asked to take off her clothes to be searched. She laughed at how she could largely glimpse life—trees and people, for instance—through prison bars of the cells constituting the death row yard, where she had been lodged. She laughed uproariously, stopped to catch her breath and then continued laughing at the question: Is there a class bias in Indian laws?