Virendra V. Vaishnav

Prison Prisoner

Pain&I Life Behind the Bars

Prison Prisoner

Pain&I

Prison Prisoner

Pain&I Life Behind the Bars

Virendra V. Vaishnav

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DEDICATION To My little angel daughter KHUSHI (means Happiness) Really is in my life

To My little star son SHLOK (means holy sentence) Am chanting everyday

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Virendra V. Vaishnav is jailed in Lajpore Central Prison, Surat, Gujarat State in India from November 2010 in connection with alleged crime murder charged 302 of Indian Penal Code, as he has not done. He is an under trial prisoner there and waiting for the court trial to end, after completed seven years. He is devoting his time to the prisoners and guards. Virendra is a multi-talented personality with lots of arts given as gift by God. He has achieved many awards as a Journalist, Painter, Designer, Cartoonist, Modern Artist, Poet, Religious Speaker, Singer and Spiritual Music Composer. Even in prisonhood he has also won two times national award “Tinka Tinka India Award” in Year 2015 for poem and painting, and in Year 2016 for special talent in prisons of India. He has won National Drawing Competitions organised by Prison Ministry India, Banglore for his painting got Fifth rank in Year 2016 and Second Rank in Year 2017. His two children living in another part of the city far from the prison. His first book ‘Life Behind the Bars’ published by Olympia Publishers, London, U.K. during his imprisonment. And he has got very prominent identity among people from all over the world. To know more about Virendra visit www.virendravvaishnav.com or email him [email protected] / [email protected]

PREFACE He has not any world To live with happiness All suffering in his cart Potholes on the rough way Obstacles lose his strength The skinny face with smile His blessing reached lives Answers comes from the sky Is he belongs to your world! Or a person of another world It was a dark day in my life when I entered the Surat District Prison on 23 November 2010. Suffering in there for sixteen months after the district prison established into the central prison, and from there I moved to another new prison called Lajpore Central Prison, Surat. It was very hard to write a book anonymously. This book is dedicated to thousands of innocent prisoners who are suffering in various prisons in Gujarat State in India. I hope you understand my life’s circumstances, feelings and the pain that you will discover within these pages. Here is something that I think the people should know about. There is nothing else to do. In my past life I worked as a Journalist, Cartoonist, Painter, Designer, Poet, Religious Speaker, Spiritual Master, Singer and Spiritual Music Composer, after which I was labelled as a Prisoner. By the grace of Almighty I have earned many awards in my prisonhood. My first book “Life Behind the Bars”

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published by Olympia Publishers, London, U.K. is very much appreciated by you. I thank you heartily and present my second book before you. I hope you will see your image in my suffering and pain. My fight began with a silent dialogue with judiciary, the law is silent on matters such as the delay and long trial process, so the law is not within the Supreme Almighty framework. One can’t be prevented from performing good works. God bless you.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To My Prisoner Brothers and Sisters, for their love and support My Soul Friends, for their selfless love and prayers My Lawyer, for his fighting in legal battle for me (He is frightening me for punishment, because he has a problem with some judge in judiciary or the judge has a problem with him. In fact, they all have problems with ego, truth and innocent.) Jailors, Guards and Lawyer Friends, for helping me to survive I would like to thank all the people who supported me through the long ordeal with emotionally, financially and people who were not even known to me before my first book ‘Life Behind the Bars’ published by Olympia Publishers, London, U.K. My extended family on Facebook and Google + Notion Press, for publishing me. Dear Reader, for wanting freedom for me.

PRISON PRISONER PAIN & I

Life Behind the Bars

PRISON PRISONER PAIN & I My silence Power of words Represents myself And the dark world Around me Pain to express The dead lives Humans comes and goes in the prison, but humanity survives. I have written this book, may be it will be an important book of suffering. System-power breed further darkness and I am fighting for light in prison. I am watching the whole sufferings process of myself as in a mirror. I feel there is a possibility for renewal, and revolution. Am I as free as I think I am? I am bound to my freedom; I am a prisoner of myself. I am continue asking for freedom, my

Prison Prisoner

Pain&I Life Behind the Bars

Virendra V. Vaishnav is jailed in Lajpore Central Prison, Surat, Gujarat in India from November 2010 in connection with an alleged crime of murder, charged under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. He has been waiting for seven years for the court trial to end. He is devoting his time to the other prisoners and guards. His deep religious faith enables him to remain strong and survive his incarceration, and he uses faith to help those around him. Prison Prisoner Pain & I is a fascinating yet disturbing insight into the mind of a prisoner who can see no end to the relentless mental torture of his prison sentence.

Virendra has been gifted with several talents by God. He has achieved many awards as a journalist, painter, designer, cartoonist, modern artist, poet, religious speaker, singer and spiritual music composer. Even in prisonhood, he won two national awards, the Tinka Tinka India Award in 2015 for poems and paintings and another for special talent in prisons of India. He has won national drawing competitions organized by Prison Ministry India, Bangalore for his paintings. He was ranked fifth in 2016 and second in 2017. His two children live in another part of the city far from the prison. His first book, Life Behind the Bars, was published by Olympia Publishers, London, U. K. during his imprisonment. He made a name for himself all over the world through the book. To know more about Virendra, visit www.virendravvaishnav.com or email him at [email protected]/ [email protected]. Price 210