Irom Sharmila Chanu has been out of news of late. This doesn't mean her resolve has changed or her will weakened. As most of us know, she has been on hunger strike since 2000 and has been kept alive by being force-fed through a pipe in her nose. This is, as pointed out by various observers, the longest political protest ever. Her demand is the removal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958), which gives unlimited power to the ...