Talk:Irom Sharmila Chanu

Apart from a vandal who came and went. She has formed the political party PRAJA http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-afspa-is-a-political-issue-not-human-rights-will-fight-it-politically-irom-sharmila-2265569 google is your friend. If anyone wants to update the page feel free or not.

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Request edit 21 March 2016 The date of the rearrest now accepted by wiki is 28 March 2016. Not sure how that has been verified since today is only the 21 March 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.43.183.96 (talk) 10:19, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

needs sorting

moving this here for now per the note above. apparently not accurate, so better to say nothing til it is straightened out.

• In March 2013 she was put on trial again for attempted suicide. The prosecution's case was closed in June 2015 and Sharmila was scheduled to testify in August 2015. In November 2013 she gave an interview to NDTV in which she discussed tensions with her organisation, the Just Peace Foundation, in which she claimed that members had made honour killing death threats against her due to her relationship with Desmond Coutinho, a British citizen, and complained that the foundation was preventing her from giving prize money she had been awarded to people or causes she wanted to help. The foundation replied that her imprisonment had made communications difficult, and that NDTV was trying to rouse hatred between Sharmila and the organisation.

References

- Jytdog (talk) 11:14, 26 February 2016 (UTC) I figure if it's truthful and verifiable I can't be the only person on line who knows how to google. One more correction for now the article claims at the end of the Fast and Responses section penultimate sentence "She has only met her mother once since the start of the fast as seeing her mother's anguish may break her resolve." She has met her mother at least three or four times that I know of and which were reported after her imprisonment. There are photos of her mother walking beside her on release available on line and on the penultimate occasion her mother gave her a long speech on why she must never abandon her fast not that Sharmila needed the speech. It may be a minor point but your version is not true and easily checked. I presume it comes from a statement she made to Mx Mehrothra who wrote her first English Biography in the previous decade and these visits occurred in this decade. That phrase is then repeated although circumstances have changed. Thank you for responding. If anybody is interested in sorting out the mess good for them. Desmond Coutinho 83.71.21.137 (talk) 12:28, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

500 weeks of hunger strike?

Hunger strike implies not eating. Here the article also claims she did not drink. How can wikipedia allow such ridiculous hoax? Anybody not drinking for a few days dies. Anybody not eating for several months dies. It depends on how much water and fat you store before the fast, but 2 years of not eating is impossible even for an obese person, or for a hibernating groundhog for that matter. So 10 years of not eating is just ridiculous, especially for a lean person. Please rewrite this article completely to preserve the respectability of wikipedia.

EDIT: Ah ok, I saw hidden in the text that she did not actually do hunger strike as she was fed by nasogastric tube the whole time. So please don't pretend she did not eat or drink. The article should be greatly rewritten. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.142.239.170 (talk) 14:02, 23 January 2020 (UTC) In response to whether the 16 years in prison mainly under illegal isolation orders the banal humiliations of prison life and theft both material and of reputation should not be described as a hunger strike because Sharmila was force fed: I presume you're a mainland Indian because who else would care. She went on a hunger strike. The response internationally to hunger strikes is either to let them die or to force feed. Force feeding is done either with permission but not consent or without permission and without consent. In the latter case the manner in which force feeding is done is treated as a cruel and unusual punishment. In Sharmila's case as with several other hunger strikers the Indian Government invoked IPC 309 attempt to commit suicide and used either to tie the hunger striker down and feed them by hand holding the mouth open after beating them first to soften them up or they would use naso-gastric intubation. In her case they used naso-gastric intubation. IPC 309 has now been removed so a hunger strike could not now lawfully be stopped in India and would be difficult to maintain for very long before the body consumed itself and the person died of multiple organ failure or survived but with limited brain function. If people understand that she followed the satyagraha tradition of the Mahatma Gandhi offering non-violent non-cooperation and hunger fast to oppose an unjust law then it is accurate. Gandhi-ji was inspired by both eastern and western non-violent opposition to shame the unjust into reconsidering their position. The Irish Poet W B Yeats wrote a play on this form of protest. But if people rely on wiki for their education then confusion most likely will remain. Second your question seems to come from a political and nationalist bias. Political questions cannot be resolve by facts. They are more like religious beliefs. In that sense it is irrelevant what a wiki article states about the campaign to remove the AFSPA from India.

This article has issues with past and present tense

It is obvious from reading this article that most of it was written while the "fast" was still happening. I've tried to edit some occasions where this has happened. But as I'm not familiar with this subject I think it's best to leave for someone to make holistic changes to the article, and reword it reflect that the fast is a historical event.

Update

I will be adding referenced events attended by Irom Sharmila. After she left prison she travelled thru India advocating for the repeal of the afspa. I can post a record of these as none other are interested any more as she is no longer in the public eye and her actions did not bear fruit IromSharmilaChanu (talk) 05:00, 24 April 2026 (UTC)