Nisha Susan speaks to Anup Surendranath, director of Project 39A, and Jahnavi Misra, author of The Punished, on why they decided to transform the research centre’s report into a book of vignettes, focusing on the lives of death row prisoners.
In this conversation on The Wire, the panellists discuss the book, the decision to stay away from sensationalised writing, separating the crime from the criminal, and more.