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ये कविताएं वहां से आई हैं जहां सूरज भी नहीं जाना चाहता - वर्तिका नंदा | Tinka
Tinka Tihar - Vartika Nanda - शब्दांकन - साहित्यिक, सामाजिक, साफ़ ई-पत्रिका Shabdankan

Tinka at Jaipur Literature Festival : 2014

Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan

Year: 2014

This special session at JLF was centred around the verses from the bars.

2014: Tinka Tinka Tihar: When women prisoners wrote for Shukravar

Date and Year: 10th January 2014

Content: Tinka Tinka Tihar

Editors: Vartika Nanda and Vimla Mehra

Poetry: 4 inmates of Tihar

Magazine: Shukravar

This article, published on January 9, 2014 features six poems written by the inmates of the largest prison complex in South Asia namely ‘Kaid Pinjare ki’ by Rama Chauhan, ‘Azaadi’ by Riya Sharma, ‘Aas’ and ‘Mera Ghar’ by Seema Raghuvanshi and ‘Paap’ and ‘Mein Maun Rehna Chahti Hun’ by Aarti. 

The feature started as a part of the prison reform initiative by Dr Vartika Nanda, a journalist, media educator and a prison reformer who believes that “writing can be a therapeutic and empowering tool for the inmates.

Link to the website: Tinka Tinka Tihar – Tinka Tinka Prison Reforms

2013: Tinka Tinka Tihar: Book Released: | तिनका तिनका तिहाड़

Author: Vartika Nanda and Vimla Mehra

Year: 2013

Location: Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi

Tinka Tinka Tihar, the book that was launched by the former Home Minister of India, Sushil Kumar Shinde, at an international conference in New Delhi in 2013, has become the voice of the women behind bars of Tihar Jail, spreading its wings across a print medium. The book is a joint effort of Dr. Vartika Nanda, a media educator and prison reformer, and Vimla Mehra, Director General of Tihar Jail. 

It is a rare attempt to provide a creative outlet for women who are confined in jail and share their emotions through poetry and has received recognition from the Limca Book of Records in 2015. It has been translated and published in six languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, and Italian, and has inspired a song called Tinka Tinka Tihar, sung by the inmates of Tihar jail, which also made it to the Limca Book of Records.

Tinka at India Habitat Centre: 18 undertrials were given special permission to perform outside four walls : 2013

Location: India Habitat Centre, Delhi

Year: 2013

Tinka at India Habitat Centre was an event that was never seen before as it featured 18 undertrials from Tihar jail who were given special permission to perform on stage. The event was a joint effort of Tinka Tinka, a prison reform initiative spearheaded by Dr. Vartika Nanda, in collaboration with the Delhi Prisons and the India Habitat Centre. The event took place on December 16, 2018, the sixth anniversary of the Nirbhaya gang rape case, to commemorate the International Human Rights Day and create awareness about the rights and dignity of prisoners. 

The event revealed the talents and imagination of the undertrials who sang, danced, acted, and recited their own songs, dances, skits, poems and stories that they had crafted during their time in jail. The event also hosted a panel discussion on prison reforms and human rights with eminent speakers such as Justice Madan B. Lokur, former judge of the Supreme Court of India, Ajay Chaudhary, Special Commissioner of Police, Delhi, Sudhir Yadav, former Director General of Delhi Prisons, Vimla Mehra, former Director General of Delhi Prisons and co-author of Tinka Tinka Tihar, and Ved Kumari, Dean and Professor of Law at Delhi University. 

The event was a rare opportunity for the undertrials to communicate and connect with the outside world. It was also a platform for emphasizing the need for prison reforms and human rights in India and was featured in Delhi Times, The Hindu and other prestigious newspapers.