let readers decide who is missing the point.

I think you are missing the point. Sharmila is registering a protest against the Indian nation-state’s practices in the Northeast. She had the courage to carry out a hunger strike for seven years. I wish you would take time out and reflect on her determination and selflesness to highlight atrocities in Manipur rather than sit back and pass value judgement. In all honesty, would YOU be able to do something similar. If yes then go ahead, if not then please refrain from commenting on other people’s struggles if you cannot even empathise with it.
futility of Gandhian politics!!! Do you think 1947 was the result of someone else’s politics?

but what’s the result? a deafening silence from the centre, media, judiciary…from every quarter of the State. so, what’s the ‘innovation’(what is so innovative about Gandhi’s hunger strike, the well-known physical form of his pressure politics, in which he himself failed in 40′s to achieve any purpose rather than creating sensation) has given to Sharmila or Manipur? nothing. simply nothing.Though with agony and pain, i speak about Sharmila whenever i get a chance, or wherever i speak about the current scenario of the country, i think Sharmila’s struggle, beside the courage and unrelenting determination, is an example of the futility of Gandhian Politics. Though it’s harsh, i would like to say, Sharmila is going to achieve nothing by this struggle. Because, Indian ruling classes will never free the north east from their clutches for the sake of a girl’s life. The apathy will never end. It’s time sharmila quit the struggle than to kill herself slowly.