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Fast among equals
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar | June 18, 2011
On 2 November 2000, Assam Rifles personnel killed 10 people at village Malom near Tulihal Airport, Imphal. That day also marked the beginning of a record-breaking fast by Irom Sharmila Chanu, then 27. Very few people thought Sharmila, an undergraduate daughter of a fourth grade veterinary department employee named I Nanda, had it in her to carry on fasting. But force-feeding through a nasal tube notwithstanding, she hasn’t only proved them wrong; she intends to carry on until she achieves her goal — get the “draconian” Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) of 1968 scrapped.
The Act gives armed forces personnel the license to kill.
Now the face of the anti-AFSPA movement, Sharmila shows no signs of cracking. Officials say “she is made of tough fibre.” Yoga helps fast long-term; it has helped Sharmila. Baba Ramdev, the made-by-television yoga guru, perhaps couldn’t prove that.
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