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Rights activists, known for holding the world's largest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention is essential for the resolution of protracted ...

NEW DELHI—A local court in India’s northeastern state of Manipur discharged Irom Sharmila Chanu—who has been on a hunger strike for more than 14 years—from detention Thursday, according to her lawyer.

Irom Sharmila ended her 16-year fast against AFSPA. Imphal: Hours after Irom Sharmila, the iconic activist who didn't eat for 16 years in protest against alleged army atrocities in Manipur, broke her ...

Irom Sharmila Chanu, the activist who ended an iconic 16-year fast to debut in politics and contest the Manipur election, said if defeated, she would try again -- in the 2019 national election. "I do ...

On 26 July 2016, when the world was glued to their television sets watching the teary eyed Irom Sharmila breaking her 16 years of hunger strike, the eminent playwright and theatre-critic Shanta ...

NEWS BRIEF Irom Chanu Sharmila last ate a meal 16 years ago. She has been on hunger strike since 2000, when an Indian paramilitary force killed 10 people in the northeastern state of Manipur. Her aim ...

With a lick of some honey that was spooned onto her palm, human rights activist Irom Sharmila on Tuesday ended her 16-year hunger strike in India – the longest such fast in the world. Sharmila, known ...

Will Irom Sharmila Meet Her Mother? By K.P. Sasi 01 December, 2010 Countercurrents.org W hat makes a human being himself or herself is very much determined by the context of the social, genetic and ...

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