Patriots, Poems and Prisoners is a collection of thoughts from the visionary Bengali thinker and reformist Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, which draws attention to the fact that much of India's true, and often stirring, history lies in the archives of little magazines and turn-of-the-century journals. TMR quickly emerged as a vital platform for debates on nationalism, patriotism, history and society back then, all of which hold equal relevance somewhere or the other in the present times as well