For 40 days, farmers from Tamil Nadu have been staging a protest in New Delhi demanding that they receive drought relief funds from the government. It is notoriously difficult for the agriculture sector to receive any attention from the government or even the public. Therefore, they have resorted to heartbreaking and often dehumanising forms of protest like putting rats and snakes in their mouths, wearing skulls of farmers who committed suicide around their necks, stripping naked and even drinking urine. Yet, the media discusses this form of protest as 'theatrical', 'innovative' and 'bizarre'. Yet, they have not even been spoken to by the government, forget getting their relief funds. This seems to be the new mode of dealing with protest movements in India. Complete ignorance, as if it doesn't even exist. We saw this earlier in FTII, where students who demanded that their chairman be removed from the post. The students sat on a hunger strike and suspend