When life comes to an end

You, please transport

My lifeless body

Place it on the soil of Father Koubru.

To reduce my dead body

To cinders amidst the flames

Chopping it with axe and spade

Fills my mind with revulsion.

The outer cover is sure to dry out

Let it rot under the ground

Let it be of some use to future generations

Let it transform into ore in the mine.

I’ll spread the fragrance of peace

From Kanglei, my birth place

In the ages to come

It will spread all over the world.

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Irom  Chanu Sharmila

born 14 March 1972

Civil rights activist, political activist, and Poet from the Indian state of Manipur

On 2 November 2000, she began a hunger strike which is still ongoing. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks, she has been called “the world’s longest hunger striker”. On International Women’s Day, 2014 she was voted the top woman icon of India by MSN Poll