Sabitri Heisnam discarded her clothes, one by one, facing a ‘military officer’. It was April 14, 2000. The final scene of an hour-long play, Draupadi, being premiered at an auditorium in Imphal, Manipur. Fifty-four-year-old Heisman was playing the protagonist, Draupadi (or Dopdi) Mejhen, who had been subjected to sexual torture in the custody of the armed forces. The audience was taken by shock and awe as Heisnam stood stark naked after flinging her last cover, the lower garment phanek, on the general.