Captive Imagination by Varavara Rao

Author:Varavara Rao [Rao, Varavara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780670082575
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-03-07T18:30:00+00:00

One step is a memory,

Another step a dream.

You don’t feel as though you have walked.

How does time pass for those deprived of human company? Many feel bored if there is no one to talk to. There are some who find it hard to pass time without some occupation to keep them engaged. Others feel that it is no hardship to spend time reading or doing something, in solitude.

A few can see that a person may also be engaged in imagination and dreaming. Those who think that they can suppress a person’s sense of freedom by subjecting him to solitude and/or imprisonment do not understand the power and scope of these two faculties.

Whether the men here are in cells or in barracks they have all been separated from their dear ones. Whether they are working or resting, in their minds lingers a world of their own. They can’t avoid its presence even while they work. Once they return to their solitary worlds after lock-up, awake or asleep, they go back to it.

The whole day one pulls hard at time as if it were a roadroller. At night, the nine hours during which it is decreed that one must sleep, not talk—one cannot sleep, one secretly smokes bidis, sucking at old memories, and one looks at the fan on the ceiling, fancying that, with its rays, it will turn into the sun in the morning.

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