Identify any five freedom fighters and research on how they used their jail term positively.
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Veer Savarkar spent 10 years of his life in isolation in this tiny and dark cubicle," the Port Blair prison tourist guide said. We looked in disbelief wondering how any human being could be isolated day and night for 10 years in a cell of 13.5x7.5 feet? A small grilled ventilator punctured the wall at a height of three metres, permitting a little light in the cell.
We were attending an audit conference in the Andaman Island and were visiting the jail in 1988. The island is known as Kaala Pani. Hundreds who participated in the sepoy mutiny of 1857 had been exiled for life to the island. The Cellular Jail was built in 1906 to ensure solitary confinement for dangerous prisoners. True to its name, the jail had 693 solitary cells in seven wings that prevented prisoners from communicating with each other. Indian freedom fighters were often imprisoned there.
Savarkar was an ardent freedom fighter. He defied the British rulers many times. In 1906, he went to London to pass the Bar-at-Law. He started the Free India Society to seek India's independence and galvanized Indian students. He was arrested in London for his fiery speeches and was sent to India for trial. He arrived in July 1910, handcuffed and in chains. He was tried and sentenced to life in the Andaman Island. All his property was confiscated.
In prison, he was yoked to the shank of an oil mill and forced to rotate around the mill like a bullock.
He chopped coconuts with a heavy wooden mallet. His hands bled.
Savarkar's passion was writing but he was denied pen and paper. Nevertheless, he etched his thoughts on the walls of his prison cell using thorns and quills. "The soul that suffers gets stronger. The aim is the freedom of the mother land," he proclaimed.
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