Vartika Nanda
Vartika Nanda is a prison reformer and a media educator. She is the founder of the Tinka Tinka Project, which aims at bringing change in the lives of jail inmates. She received the Stree Shakti Puraskar for 2013 from the President of India for her contribution in creating awareness on women's issues.
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Bihar's jails are way too crowded, liquor arrests made it worse
Who cares about prisons? Do people languishing inside actually matter to us? Why are our prisons overcrowded?
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Open jails are a great idea, but why do we not want more of them?
48-year-old Manoj Jha today is a reformed and a confident person. No one, including him, can believe that he had been in jail for almost 14 years.