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A Hunger Strike Loses Its Moral Force the Moment It Is Sponsored

Sonam Wangchuk has been on hunger strike for 23 days, with the Delhi High Court now examining his medical condition and a plea to move him out of a government hospital, while the government has only just opened informal talks after weeks of silence. TAN's opinion piece uses this moment, alongside Anna Hazare's 2011 fast against corruption, to ask what separates a hunger strike that moves a government from one it can afford…