Cellular Jail tells a cruel history - Meghalaya Monitor

Cellular Jail tells a cruel history - Meghalaya Monitor

I recently visited the Andaman Islands and went to see the Cellular Jail in Port Blair, which is now renamed as Vijaya Puram. Like any tourist, I expected that this would be a true experience of what history sometimes does not teach us, especially since I was a student of history. Established by the British to suppress the Indian freedom movement, it is historically significant since it was known to be a place that served as a notorious penal co…