Symbolic signs of diplomacy has nothing to do with expected returns. A slim little man sitting on a fast-unto-death isn't inferior to a fatso who normally eats 18 meals a day. Had that been the criteria; a certain Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi would have been laughed off by every Britisher, and Medha Patkar would be the joke of the century. So correct your thought process before it is too late.
