Sudha Bharadwaj on activism, her time in jail & why Chhattisgarh will always be home https://youtu.be/jchsD_zrbeI?t=310 “Had I not become a lawyer,” she says, “I don’t think I would have been very easily accepted as a leader.” Sudha was released from Mumbai’s Byculla Jail in December last year after spending three years in prison. She was arrested in connection with the #BhimaKoregaon violence and was repeatedly denied bail until December 1. She was also dubber an 'urban naxal' by TV channels that made little attempt to understand her work. Sudha says she now wants to go to her real home, to Chhattisgarh, where she’s lived since the 1980s.
The trade unionist and lawyer sits down with Manisha Pande in Mumbai. Sudha Bharadwaj loves mathematics, wonders whether she gave her daughter the “right” kind of childhood, and became a lawyer when she was 40 years old.