Hours after Irom Sharmila, the iconic activist who didn't eat for 16 years in protest against alleged army atrocities in Manipur, broke her fast and left the hospital, she tried to enter the Kaisampat area of Imphal town but was prevented by people upset with her from breaking the hunger strike. The frail, wiry 44-year-old had left, for the last time, the prison hospital in which she spent years being force-fed through a plastic tube after being arrested for attempted suicide.
