In March, an Indian court sentenced a Delhi University English literature professor, GN Saibaba, to life imprisonment. His crime was having alleged connections with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Saibaba has been diagnosed with permanent post-polio paralysis of the legs; he is almost entirely dependent on others to perform basic functions. Yet since his sentencing, he has languished in solitary confinement, in Nagpur Central Jail’s notorious Anda Cell. In an earlier letter to his wife, Vasantha Kumari, he wrote, “Already I am shivering with continuous fever. I do not have a blanket. I do not have a sweater/jacket. As temperature goes down excruciating pain continuously in my legs and left hand increases. I am living here like an animal taking its last breaths.”

The jail authorities have done nothing to relieve his pain. His doctors say he is suffering from kidney and gallbladder stones, but he cannot access treatment. His family sends medicines, but he does not receive them. He needs pancreatic surgery, or he risks infection.

The small windows the public has into the conditions at Nagpur Central Jail come from Professor Saibaba’s letters. Kumari has shared her husband’s latest missive with Jacobin. This time, he directs his reflections to Anjum, a central character in Arundhati Roy’s new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Through Saibaba’s creative dialogue with Anjum and other characters from Roy’s literary world, we witness the suffering endured in political persecution.

This poor man gets life imprisonment for having connections to Communists. Things doesn't look very good for Trump. 

I read lots of news from India, but I never came across this before. It appears India is very serious about communist influence than any other country in the world.