Ghandy, who is in charge of spreading Maoist influence in urban areas and its publishing wing, is at present lodged in Jail No 3 of Tihar.
Kobad Ghandy, the politburo member of banned CPI (Maoist), will utilise his time in Tihar Jail to write a book on wife Anuradha, who was his comrade- in-arms for two decades in the Naxalite movement.
Sources said the 59-year-old Ghandy is writing a memoir of Anuradha, another politburo member who died due to cerebral malaria in April last year, in jail and has requested the authorities for paper to write the book.
Ghandy, who is in charge of spreading Maoist influence in urban areas and its publishing wing, is at present lodged in Jail No 3 of Tihar after he was arrested on September 21 by Delhi police's special cell following intelligence inputs.
When contacted, Tihar Jail spokesperson Sunil Kumar Gupta said it was their policy to promote and encourage prison inmates to undertake creative pursuits. However, he said, the jail authorities were not aware of what Ghandy is writing.
"If an inmate wants to write, we will not discourage. We will encourage creative pursuits of our inmates," he said.
Ghandy had married Anuradha, a graduate of Mumbai's Elphinstone College, in 1983 and they worked with tribals and beedi workers in Maharashtra's Chandrapur before moving to tribals areas in Dhule and Nandurbar districts.
The couple also decided not to have children so that they could utilise their time fully for the organisation. Both Kobad and Anuradha came from affluent families and the atmosphere of the 1970s influenced them.
Kobad's father was a senior official in leading multinational company Glaxo and the family lived in Worli in Mumbai. They owned a hotel in Mahableshwar and a bungalow in Panchgani.
Kobad did his chartered accountancy from London where he was influenced by the revolutionary ideology. After returning to India, he did not take up a job and started visiting slums in Mumbai to understand their problems.
He met Anuradha, who had a similar family background, during such visits. Her family owned coffee plantations in Karnataka's Coorg.
Anuradha died on April 12, 2008 and she could not be taken to hospital in time as she worked in the interiors of Chhattisgarh. Ghandy is suffering from prostrate cancer and cardiac problems.
The Maoists had claimed that a "weak element" in their party, who was acting as his courier, gave information to police about his movements. They claimed Ghandy was a "role model for the new generation" and had "just returned from a trip to the guerrilla zone".
An alumnus of the prestigious Doon School, Ghandy was in the top echelons of the erstwhile CPI (ML-PW) from 1981 and continued as central committee member in CPI (Maoist). He was elected to the CPI (Maoist) Politburo in 2007.
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