(2) Irom Chanu Sharmila born on 14 March 1972 is known as the"Iron Lady” or "Mengoubi" ("the fair one”). She is a civil rights activist,political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On 5 November 2000, she began ahunger strike which ended on 9 August 2016, after 16 years of fasting.