By Samridhi Chugh
3 inmates lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail, Ahmedabad have won Tinka Tinka India Awards in the past for their extraordinary work in jail. They have come together to celebrate the 8th edition of Tinka Tinka India Awards to be held in Gujarat this year. This year over 600 entries were received by the Foundation, including few from transgender inmates as well. Tinka Tinka India and Tinka Tinka Bandini Awards are the exclusive national awards dedicated to prison, honouring both inmates and the jail officials for their significant contribution.
Tinka Tinka Foundation is all set to announce results for the Tinka Tinka India and Tinka Tinka Bandini Awards for the year 2022. These will be announced on the eve of Human Rights Day,
With the theme ‘Newspapers in Jails’, Tinka Tinka Foundation had invited entries under 4 categories, namely Painting, Special Mention, Prison Administration and Bandini Awards.
Dr. A.P. Maheshwari, IPS (retd.) Former DG, BPR&D, Sanjay Chaudhary, IPS (retd.), Former DG, Prisons & Correctional Services, Madhya Pradesh and Dr. Vartika Nanda, Founder, Tinka Tinka Foundation were the members of the jury.
The awards will be released by Dr. K.L.N. Rao, DG Prisons, Gujarat. This will be followed by the Tinka Tinka Jail exhibition, with a number of paintings made by inmates of Gujarat.
About Tinka Tinka Foundation
Tinka Tinka is the brainchild of prison reformer and media educator Dr. Vartika Nanda who heads the Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She has been honoured with the Stree Shakti Award from the President of India in 2014, the highest civilian honour for women in India. Her work on prisons has twice found a place in the Limca Book of Records and was also recognised by the Supreme Court in 2018. Three books under the Tinka Tinka series – Tinka Tinka Tihar, Dasna and Madhya Pradesh – amalgamate the world of literature with authentic and diverse accounts of inmates from across the country.
Credited for introducing jail radio to Haryana, Agra and Uttarakhand in a long-stretched campaign that started in 2019, the organisation has created an umbrella of creativity under the Tinka Tinka Model of Prison Reforms, with the tagline – “Creating Rainbows in Prisons”. Its unique Tinka Jail Radio Podcast series on YouTube and other digital platforms, which recently touched the 50-episodes mark, is also the only podcast series in the country guided by the vision of prison reformation. Tinka Tinka India Awards and Tinka Tinka Bandini Awards are extensions of many of these mammoth undertakings.
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