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On November 22 this year, a deportee from the Maoist heartland, Himanshu Kumar, now 60, completed a nearly 2,000-kilometre cycle march through western India.

The Polis Project has been following his mission right from its beginning on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, when he set off from the Rajghat Memorial at Delhi. Before leaving, he symbolically spun cotton with a hand-driven charkha, surrounded by a handful of supportive co-activists. Through his journey, Kumar remained connected with people, and routinely posted eye-opening reports, until he reached his destination—the entrance to the premises of a blighted central prison—at Taloja, close to Navi Mumbai, 52 days later.

In this interview, senior reporter Prashant Rahi talks to Himanshu about his cycle march and history and future plans of advocacy against oppression.