The fact that Irom Chanu Sharmila's fast for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur has joined Ripley's odditorium will leave ...
12:56 PM, May 10, 2012
Kolkata: The courageous tale of Irom Chanu Sharmila, the 'Iron Lady of Manipur', who has not eaten a morsel of food since the last eleven years has now been included in the collection of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not'. Under the banner of Just Peace Foundation (JPF), supporters of Irom had written to researchers at the US-based Ripley's franchise requesting them to include her case in their list of unusual...
02:44 AM, May 10, 2012
In a 2009 interview, historian Lokendra Arambam, former President of the Apunba Lup (a conglomerate of 32 civil society organisations in the state of Manipur) told me that when it comes to Manipur, "the government of India is interested in the land and not in the people." In 2006, just three years before Arambam's remark, Henry V Jardine, US Consulate General, Calcutta, returned from Manipur, which borders Myanmar, and sent...
12:26 PM, Jan 09, 2012
HYDERABAD: With the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA) being a bone of contention between civil rights groups and the governments, 'Saving Sharmila' campaign might not be an easy objective. But, a five-member team of civil society representatives, who were in the city on Monday, have named their campaign in honour of the iron lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila. "We want to reach out to people and not just make...
09:37 AM, Nov 29, 2011
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India doesn't deserve Manipur. Manipur more than deserves India - despite the holier than thou incarnates in New Delhi. The state faces the worst step-motherly ...
03:48 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Kolkata: A mime play portraying 'Iron Lady' Irom Chanu Sharmila's 11-year-long hunger strike demanding repeal of the 'draconian' Armed Forces Special Powers Act has drawn applause at an international theatre festival in South Korea. The one-hour stage drama 'Mirel Masingkha' or 'The will of soul', based on Sharmila's lone struggle, was showcased at the Chuncheon Festival in the South Korean city of Gwangju last week in homage to the victims...
01:29 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Irom Sharmila has been on a 10-year long fast demanding the removal of the Arms Forces Special Powers Act. ...
06:43 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Anna said that two people from his team will visit Irom Sharmila first then he will decide after that. ...
06:34 PM, Oct 02, 2011
CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Anubha Bhonsle talks about the amazing journey of the ten-year old fast of the Iron Lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).Anubha acknowledges and also laments the fact that Irom's cause came to hit the national headlines only after the 13-day fast of Anna Hazare to get the Jan Lokpal Bill passed. She points out that either our indifference to...
07:08 PM, Sep 19, 2011
On this episode we bring you the struggle of Manipur's iron lady Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast for the last ten years fighting for the repeal of AFPSA. ...
12:25 PM, Sep 18, 2011
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"Why don't you cover Irom Sharmila's decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare's 13-day fast?" asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of ...
12:02 AM, Sep 09, 2011
On this episode we bring you the stories of fake encounters by the state police in Manipur. ...
07:22 PM, Sep 05, 2011
CNN-IBN brings you from its archives the story of Irom Sharmila's struggle demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFPSA) in Manipur. ...
07:15 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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"I am still naked." She said it tonelessly, almost hopelessly; no anger, not even an eye-lid moved, and then she got up and left. ...
05:49 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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