Apr 23, 2015

2015: Tinka Tinka Tihar: Limca Book of Records

Location: Tihar, Delhi
Year: 2015

Co-authored by Vartika Nanda and Vimla Mehra (IPS), Director General, Tinka Tinka Tihar, is the first of its kind, featuring a collection of poems written by selected female inmates of the Tihar prison complex. Published in both English & Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan, this book was released by the then Union Minister of Home Affairs, Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde at the APCCA Conference in Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi in September, 2013. This book is a unique effort to give platform to women inmates lodged in Tihar jail. This book was hailed by various media channels, including NDTV and Hindi website of the BBC. This book has already been translated into Italian, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati.