MR Rajaram,
Open your eyes. Mr APS Mani has abused on the forward of Kalapani. I have
replied him. Even before his response you write on my response to him. Hence I
wrote back to you. Where did I gossip? You are creating troubles.
Gopalakrishnan
On Friday, 20 January, 2023 at 08:38:20 am IST, Rajaram Krishnamurthy
<[email protected]> wrote:
No gopala u fit in so squarely for conducting gossips and abusing all
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 7:06 PM gopala krishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
The proverb fits better to you.
On Friday, 20 January, 2023, 08:06:49 am IST, Rajaram Krishnamurthy
<[email protected]> wrote:
Even that proverb is not spelt properly. If that was act of shaving the cat,
what is the name for Q&A from Quora gossip to name? No words. There is another
proverb in tamil. Aadatheriyadha.......medai Konal endraalaam. K R IRS 19123
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 6:08 PM 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123
<[email protected]> wrote:
There is a Tamil saying- Velayillatha ambittan, poonayae chorachan. Your
response reminds me the same
On Thursday, 19 January, 2023 at 09:12:40 pm IST, APS Mani
<[email protected]> wrote:
My comment was meant for Mr GK
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:10 PM APS Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
Silly summaries on the exposure of a gruesome tale. For you everything is like
'sappadu' and nothing more and no serious feelings also.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:48 PM 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Mr Sekar,
Thank you for reading the forward and responding with additions of your
feelings on reading the forward.
I have seen films Kalapani acted by Mohanlal and Kappalottiya Thamizhan acted
by Late Sivaji Ganesan Yes. The incidents and descriptions told in the forward
is touching.
It is our own Indians were traitors, who helped the British to do so many nasty
things. Very few of the Britishers were good like Peter Pandian who worked
sincerely and helped Indians, as read from writings
Gopalakrishnan
On Thursday, 19 January, 2023 at 08:33:45 pm IST, 'N Sekar' via iyer123
<[email protected]> wrote:
It was heart wrenching to read the type of tortures our valiant freedom
fighters had to undergo. We pray for the departed souls of all those who fought
for our freedom, although, unfortunately, only one or two families had been
credited with for our freedom. Veer Savarkar is being mocked by a section of
our ungrateful population.
If you had seen the Tamizh film " Kappalotiya Tamizhan", you would have shed
tears for the sufferings the true children of Bharat Mata like VOC, Subramanya
Siva, Bharathiyar, Vanchnathan and countless others.
Unbelievably, a few thousand Britishers were able to subjugate nearly 30 crores
of Indians - it was possible because of our Traitors and Desh Drokis, in the
guise of ICS officers, Police and others who helped the British administration.
Without these traitors the British could not have ruled over us for so long.
These traitors were partners in crime to all the atrocities that happened to
our freedom fighters.
We are an ungrateful Nation sir, we have deliberately suppressed the names of
so many of our local Heroes, which are now slowly coming to light. We
celebrated our Invaders but forgot those who stood and fought for us and
sacrificed their lives for us.
Pranams to all those noble souls. God bless their souls.
N Sekar
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:45 PM, 'gopala krishnan' via
iyer123<[email protected]> wrote:
What are thedark secrets of Kalapani jail which is also called as Cellular jail
in Andamanthat every Indian should know?- FORWARD
Girish Kumar (गिरीश कुमार),Studied at St.Francis De Sales High SchoolUpdated
Aug 31
" KALAPANI"....The name itself brings chills down the spines. Life here would
be filled withtorture, hunger and loneliness. They would be worked like
slaves.Some would go mad, others would be driven to suicide. This place would
form oneof the darkest chapters in India’s struggle for freedom. Below are the
real facts ofCellular Jail in which Britishers tortured our Indians in such a
waythat prisoners wish they could die instead of this brutal torture.
Source : All the information is takenfrom documentary, books and various
internet sources.
1) The Cellular Jail is also, termed as Kala Paani. Kalmeans “time or death”
while Paani means “water“. The name itself gives shiversto prisoners.
2) Construction of this Cellular jail started in theyear 1896 and ended in 1906
under the advise of the Demon named " Charles James Lyall".The main intention
to build this jail was to decrease the spirits of our Indianfreedom fighters
who fought against Britishers. Whenever Britishers think that they have
threatagainst a person, then they would simply put them in this jail.
3) Cellular Jail is a massive three-storeyed structurewith seven wings of
unequal lengths, radiating from a central watch tower,shaped like spokes of a
wheel as shown in the below figure.
4) Once you go in then it is highly impossible to escapebecause your movements
are constantly observed by guards. The watch towerhoused the alarm bell and
guardsmen kept an eye on the prisoners all the time.The concept of this design
is that the prisoners literally have no idea whetherthey are being watched or
not.
5) If you manage to escape from guards you have to swimacross the sea with your
wounded body which Ithink it is highly impossible. And also there is a small
island nearby this jail and if you manage toreach there by facing difficulties,
you will be killed by wild animals ortribes living there.
Even if you manageto escape from these wild animals and tribes then you will
see nothing but seaso death is the only option. This is the view from cellular
jail. 👇
6) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt,Barindra kumar Ghosh, Bhai
Parmanand, Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, Hare KrishnaKonar, Mahavir Singh, Mohan
kishore Namadas, Mohit Moitra, Sachindra NathSanyal, Shiv Verma, Sohan Singh
Bhakna, Sudhangshu Dasgupta, Yogendra Shuklawere some famous revolutionaries
who were tortured in this Cellular jails.
7) It has 696 cells, one for each person. The nameCellular Jail is derived from
its unique feature as it has only cells and nodormitories. Each cellmeasures 13
1/2 ‘x 7’, secured by a heavy iron grill door with aspecially designed latch
system. Inadequate and congested jail.
8)Besides the barred door, the cellular wing itselfhad prison bars giving the
whole area a double security.
9) Prisoners were forced to work on the oil grindingmill was all the more
terrible and caused several deaths.
10)The most difficult work was coir-pounding andoil-grinding. Each one was
given the dry husk oftwenty coconuts. The husk had first to be placed on a
piece of wood and then tobe beaten with a wooden hammer till it became soft.
Then the outer skin had tobe removed. Then it was dipped in water and moistened
and then again one had topound it. By sheerpounding the entire husk inside
dropped off, only the fibers remaining.These fibers had then to be dried in the
sun and cleaned. Each one was expectedto prepare daily a roll of such fibers
weighing one seer.
11)Punishment was inhuman, it ranged from extrahours on the grinding mill to
standing handcuffed for a week, to bar-fettersfor six months, to confinement in
solitary cells, to four days of starvationdiet and crossbars for ten days, a
punishment which compelled the victim tokeep his legs apart.
12) If they fail to complete the task which wereassigned to them, then that
person would be tied on flogging stand wearingpunishment dress(which is shown
below) and then he gets continuous blows on hisbuttocks and purposefully they
would hit on the same spot until the skin layeris blown away. Below are the
pictures of that punishment 👇
13) There was no light in those prisons and wascompletely pitch dark. Only one
prisoner was kept in each prison and there isno chance to communicate with
others.
14) Three bowls were given to the prisoners. One isto urinate and pass stools
,one is for drinking water and the other is foreating food. Those three bowls
were kept in their respective prisons. It was not sufficient forprisoners to
urinate because the bowl was too small so prisoners used tourinate on the floor
and eat on that same floor as well. There areno washrooms and bedrooms in this
cellular jails. Those bowls were cleaned out by the prisoners whenthey were out
the next morning.
15) Daily after working hard for hours prisonerswould get unhygienic food which
consists of worms, mosquitoes and stones.
16) Dirty Rain water was given for prisoners to drink.
17) Many Prisoners died in those prisons aftergetting exposed to these
unhygienic conditions.
18) Mahavir Singh, Mohan Kishore , Mohan Moitrastarted hunger strike till 45
days for providing unhygienic food and for nothaving toilet seats but instead
Britishers started a process called force feed where one is forced toeat food
against his will. After doing so, those food particles gotstuck in their wind
pipes and they died eventually. Their bodies were throwninto the Andaman waters.
19) The place where prisoners were given meagermeals, right opposite to that
are the gallows. Though closed within a building,the cries of the men being
hung could be easily heard across the mess. It wasdesigned so that
psychologically it would affect the other prisoners who ate inthe mess.
20) Veer Savarkar and his brother BabaraoSavarkar were put in different
prisons. Until two years they didn't had anyidea that they were in same hell.
21) Britishers made our freedom fighters to buildother jails for themselves
without knowing that they will be placed in thoseprisons which they have made
with their own hands.
22) Those who fight against Britishers were forced todrink Urine and eat poop.
23)You will be surprised to know that prisoners weretied to the mouth of
cannons and they were blown up.
24) Barindra kumar Ghosh who is one of thegreatest revolutionaries of India
mentioned in his book - "The sufferingwe had to undergo was perhaps entirely
due to our destiny. No individual personcould be held responsible for that. All
credit should be given to the jailregulations only and perhaps to a wilful
God.".
25)Records suggestaround 80,000 Indians were sent to Andaman as punishment over
a period of some80 years from 1860. Thousands of them were shot, hanged or
tortured to death.
26)This jail was later taken over by the Japanesetroops in the year 1942 at the
time of World War II.
27) Scotsman David Barry, the jailor between 1909and 1931, was infamous for his
insane cruelty. “While you are here, I am yourgod,” was the cry with which he
welcomed prisoners.
28)David Barry(jailer) once asked Ullaskar Dutta toglean three litres of oil in
a day. Ullaskar refused because even oxen canglean only two litres a day. They
fettered his arms raised to the ceiling, andhis feet to the ground. He stood
motionless for three days for he could notmove. When they untied him finally,
he collapsed senseless. He went mad afterhe woke up. It is believed that some
of the prisoners went mad while goingthrough this brutual torture.
29) Do you know what are the demands of ourfreedom fighters in this cellular
jail?
We want soap toclean ourselves.We want beds to sleep on.We want edible food.Let
us study forwe are political prisoners.Allow us to communicate with each other.
In the end, the British relented and accepted theprisoners’ demands. I think
you can understand thepain and frustration our beloved freedom fighters who
have experienced in thisprison. Finallyprisoners were sent home between
September 1937 and January 1938.
30)The Sikhs have made a lot of sacrifices in thefreedom struggle and their
number was the second highest even in the list ofpolitical prisoners imprisoned
at the Cellular Jail. This is really great andsad as well because their names
are completely whitewashed. Here is the list👇. Belownumbers belong to only
famous freedom fighters but we really don't know howmany real fighters were
imprisoned here.
Spending a single day in this jail is like nightmare foreveryone. Just imagine
the condition of Veer Savarkarwho was imprisoned here for almost 13 years.
Savarkar, then aged 28, wasconvicted for revolting against the Morley-Minto
reforms and was sentenced to50-years imprisonment and transported on 4 July
1911 to the infamous Cellularjail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and was
released on 6th January 1924.
The walls of this cellular jail truly knows the real painof our freedom
fighters.We should be really thankfulto these legends. Their sacrifice cannot
be measured in words and saddest partis even after experiencing trauma, their
true stories are not mentioned in ourso called social text books and how can we
expect coming generations to rememberthem?
A big Salute to all the freedom fighters who foughtfor us selflessly and
sacrificed their life after experiencing dreadfulpunishments.The reason we are
enjoying today is all because of the freedomfighters who sacrificed their
lives. Forgetting our freedom fighters is likeforgetting our country.
If you are really interested to know how exactly ourrevolutionaries had spent
their deranged life in kalapani jail, then definitelyI would recommend you all
to read this book.👇
Respected friends,
I found the reading quite interesting and thought offorwarding. Whether there
are still more facts or exaggeration isnot verified. It is just a forward
Gopalakrishnan 19-1-2022
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