Till 1997, before he came to Delhi, G.N. Saibaba, 90% disabled since the age of 5 years, wore slippers on his hands to move around till he could buy a wheelchair. His hands were very strong then, recalls his wife and childhood friend Vasantha.
But the nearly decade-long incarceration at the Nagpur Central jail have left him a broken man physically. “It is a miracle I am alive”, is how he himself summed it after his release. The physical pain, though, has not broken his spirit.
“I am not in a position to sit or speak. I am in shooting pain,” he says recalling his days in the “dystopian” cell of Nagpur jail without proper medical care, where he had to be carried to the toilet by fellow prisoners.
