Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 05:
In the dull and painful life of Irom Sharmila who has been fasting for years demanding revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the State, poetry is the only source of succour for her tormented life.
So far Sharmila has composed over 60 poems after she undertook fasting in judicial custody since November 2000.
Talking to reporters today at JN Hospital where she is nose fed, Sharmila stated that lampoon, allegory and political allegory have been the main genres of her poetry.
A visibly weak Sharmila read out her new poem Ei Kabi Oiraroi to the reporters in rythemic note and said that "I penned this piece as a gift or rather a response to a social organisation that insisted upon me to give my vision regarding my struggle and the nature of the present society".
She went on to say "I'll never break my fast until the Act is repealed in toto".
To a query concerning the murder of four persons of a family in Noney, the human rights activist who is on fast since Novemner 200 remarked "Such excesses of the central forces will continue unabated as long as the Act is clamped".