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Catch Manipuri Human Rights Activist Irom Sharmila This Week On ‘Off Centre’

Catch Manipuri Human Rights Activist Irom Sharmila This Week On ‘Off Centre’

by The Daily Eye Team November 5 2016, 11:55 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

In this week’s episode of Off Centre, Anuradha SenGupta speaks to Manipuri Human Rights Activist Irom Sharmila who ended her almost sixteen year-long fast in August.  In the candid conversation, Irom talks about her struggles and acknowledges the fact that since her unique way of protesting for getting the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act repealed from Manipur did not fetch her the desired results, she has decided to enter electoral politics. In her first full-length TV interview, Irom also talks about the hardships faced by Manipur residents and her future strategy to achieve what she has been aiming for nearly two decades.



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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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