Booker prize winner and fiery activist, who has taken on the establishments questioning their dogmatic approach to issues and one of the few Indians to publicly condemn Pokhran II and III in 1998, Arundhati Roy among other eminent social and human rights activists of the Nation are set to join a five-day long observation beginning November 2 to mark ten years of Irom Chanu Sharmila's lone struggle against the controversial AFSPA.
Main highlights of the observation will include an all community prayer, seminar on peace and social issues and an art exhibition, said Sharmila's elder brother Irom Singhajit who is the managing trustee of the Just Peace Foundation (JPF), the organizer of the event.
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