Tears of Turbulence and Imprisonment

Description

The book consists of poems on various themes and feelings, and in addition English version of some older poems of the author with social, human and revolutionary context, and finally some poems written during imprisonment in 1970s.

About The Author

Saumen Guha was born in 1947 in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), brought up as a poor refugee in West Bengal, and is now an Indian citizen.

Formally trained in science and engineering for his livelihood, he left his job as Engineering Overseer (Mechanical and Electrical) at the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority in 1970 to work with poor peasants in villages as a Communist revolutionary (called Naxalite).

Due to his involvement in militant Communist ideology, he and his family members, including his wife, were arrested and brutally tortured by the West Bengal and Calcutta police in 1974 and imprisoned for three years.

He is the architect of the internationally famous and historic ‘Archana Guha Case’ against torture in police custody, one of the world’s longest legal battles, and continues the crusade as counsel for the prosecution toward victory.

He is a devoted reader, writer, painter, and music lover. He has written and edited several books and authored many articles on human rights, music, films, literary biography, socio-economics, nuclear pollution, and related subjects.

Saumen is now busy preparing the English version of his memoir of imprisonment, Bright Darkness, and a compilation of documents related to the ‘Archana Guha Case’ against torture in police custody.

Deep in the Broken Words is the first book of English poems by Saumen Guha. Tears of Turbulence and Imprisonment is his second book of English poems.