Red Alert: Tales Of Escape From Tihar

What happens when a jailer becomes the witness to the country’s most explosive secrets?In Red Alert Tihar’s long-serving superintendent Sunil Gupta returns with another unflinching look into the underbelly of India’s prisons — this time from the frontlines of riots lockdowns jailbreaks and death sentences that shook the nation.Do jailbirds ever stop dreaming of freedom? Of course not says Gupta who spent a lifetime guarding those condemned to stay within Tihar’s towering walls. Only the desperate dare to flee — like Charles Sobhraj who walked out days before his release to dodge a foreign noose and Sher Singh Rana Phoolan Devi’s killer who escaped to Afghanistan on a self-proclaimed royal mission.From terror convicts who turned poets to guards who lost their sanity on duty from mysterious deaths to audacious breakouts — Gupta reveals what the red alert siren inside Tihar really means. Red Alert goes beyond the black warrants — into the moments when the system itself is on trial and freedom becomes the most dangerous dream of all.A rare insider’s chronicle of power crime and survival within India’s largest prison Red Alert exposes the cracks in the walls meant to contain others — and shows us what freedom punishment and humanity really mean.