 "CHRI Senior Advisor Maja Daruwala. Illustration by Binay Sinha")
Maja Daruwala is currently Senior Advisor at Tata Trusts and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), which is strongly focussed on issues of social justice. She was a director at CHRI for 20 years and is an eminent voice on issues related to policing and prison reform, and is also a member of a committee set up by the National Human Rights Commission to look into human rights amid Covid-19. Daruwala speaks to Shreegireesh Jalihal on policing during the nationwide lockdown and in general, and the current state of the country's prisons. Edited excerpts:
There have been multiple reports of police
