SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Irom Chanu Sharmila

1972 - Today

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Irom Chanu Sharmila (born 14 March 1972), also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" ("the fair one") is an Indian civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur, which is located on the north-eastern side of India. In November 2000, she began a hunger strike for abolishing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958. After 16 years, she ended her fast in 2016, after being nasally force-fed for over 500 weeks in custody. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irom Chanu Sharmila has received more than 1,496,106 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Irom Chanu Sharmila is the 738th most popular social activist (down from 609th in 2019), the 1,227th most popular biography from India (down from 1,038th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Irom Chanu Sharmila ranks 738 out of 840. Before her are Barbara Gittings, Gauri Lankesh, Alexandra Shevchenko, Veronika Tsepkalo, Hector Pieterson, and Zakia Zaki. After her are Pablo Hasél, Oliver Wood, Peter Tatchell, Nisha Ayub, Cindy Sheehan, and Nikolay Alexeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Irom Chanu Sharmila ranks 810. Before her are Hiroshi Moriyasu, Davide Sanguinetti, Selenis Leyva, Jason London, Jörgen Jönsson, and Corinne Niogret. After her are Katsuhiro Minamoto, Charity Opara, Omar Diallo, Svetlana Boyko, Sim Kwon-ho, and Angela Alupei.

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In India

Among people born in India, Irom Chanu Sharmila ranks 1,227 out of 1,861. Before her are Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), Harbhajan Singh (1980), Arjun Sarja (1962), N. Biren Singh (1961), Sanaya Irani (1983), and Anupam Tripathi (1988). After her are Jayam Ravi (1980), Uday Chopra (1973), Aditya Pancholi (1965), Karun Chandhok (1984), Vivek Oberoi (1976), and Sonam Kapoor (1985).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Irom Chanu Sharmila ranks 57. Before her are Rattanbai Jinnah (1900), Rajmohan Gandhi (1935), Sumaira Abdulali (1961), Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), Stan Swamy (1937), and Gauri Lankesh (1962). After her are Manasi Pradhan (1962), Sunitha Krishnan (1972), Laxmi Agarwal (1990), and Licypriya Kangujam (2011).

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