Our regards to Lakshman Barkya and other Warli members of Rankol and Shelat. We are all fine. Tell Vithal Barkya that his crop has been cut properly. All of you all, don't worry about your farms. Also, we are taking care of your wives and children. We are hopeful and you too do not lose patience, even if you have to spend some more time in jail. Our Red Flag's lawyers are trying their best to defend you.

This is a collective letter, written by four Warlis—Maya Deviji Vayda, Lahangya Navshya Vartha, Harji Sutar and Rishya Shidba Labad—to their brethren who were jailed and isolated because of their participation in the peasant uprising against bonded labour, unfair wage practices, illegal land acquisition and social-sexual exploitation of Warli women. The letter is excerpted by late Communist leader-writer Godavari Parulekar in her defining 1970 Marathi book, Jevha Manus Jaga Hoto—Mouj publishing house will soon release its 18th edition—which won the Sahitya Akademi and several other awards and was translated into English, Japanese and regional Indian languages over the past five decades.