It has become quite normal these days for politician, Trade Unions and All and Sundry to resort to demonstrations in Protest against some politics of the ruling party or, for some benefits denied by the government in power. Invariably, it could be in the form of ‘Protest marches’ which could slow down day-to-day activities and cause great inconvenience to the people and small traders.

But, when it comes to occasional Hunger strike, people do sympathies with the participants, though we hear some funny things about such demonstrations like; “ They manage to have their food one by one, making sure that they are not noticed by the public.”

Of course most of the people refuse to believe such things, though what happened the other day, began to spread, much to the embarrassment of the participants, the ‘rumour’ goes like this:- An elderly person who was getting ready for his speech, a small food packet dropped from his hip pocket and it was noticed by all, much to the shame of all concerned!