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Irom in Her Soul :: Irom Sharmila
Open Magazine | Aarthi Gunnupuri | 16 July 2011
Over the past couple of months, a debate about the hunger fast as a weapon of blackmail has occupied plenty of media space, yet there’s pretty much no mention of Irom Chanu Sharmila. The lady has been on a fast for more than 11 years now, enduring forced nasal feeding for most of this period .
Why should laws formulated to repress the Freedom Movement influence free India?” asks Ojas SV, a Pune-based theatre activist who has put together a disturbing but powerful play called Le Mashale about Sharmila’s struggle.
“I have known about Irom Sharmila for quite a few years now, and I wanted to do something to support her cause. I didn’t know what,” says Ojas.
In early 2010, she found a way. Civic Chandran’s Malayalam play Maira Paibi, based on Deepti Priya Mehrotra’s book Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and The Struggle for Peace in Manipur, was the talk of the Pune theatre circuit. Maira Paibi, which roughly translates as ‘female torchbearers’, is also the name of a Manipuri women’s group, founded in 1980, that strives for peace in the state. The group takes its name from the local women who used to patrol towns and villages at night with torches. Ojas decided to adapt Chandran’s work into a one-person bilingual play. The play also includes poetry by contemporary poet Anshu Malviya and Sharmila’s own writing.
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