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Satish Kumar

1936 - Today

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Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international center for ecological studies, and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a peace walk of over 8,000 miles in June 1962 for two and a half years, from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Satish Kumar is the 359th most popular social activist (up from 567th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from India (up from 755th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Satish Kumar ranks 359 out of 840. Before him are Feodosia Morozova, Yacouba Sawadogo, Borys Romanchenko, Mehdi Huseynzade, Yun Hyon-seok, and Deniz Gezmiş. After him are Muhammad Zaidan, Frank País, Charles Boycott, Mentor of Rhodes, Anita Augspurg, and Abbie Hoffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Satish Kumar ranks 253. Before him are Antonio Gades, Frederick Ballantyne, Walter Koenig, Jim Brown, Karol Divín, and Lien Chan. After him are Alex Olmedo, Lars Gustafsson, Éder Jofre, Richard Harrison, Birthe Wilke, and Guillermo Endara.

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In India

Among people born in India, Satish Kumar ranks 446 out of 1,861. Before him are Naushad (1919), Sarada Devi (1853), Satya Nadella (1967), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Jahandar Shah (1661), and Keshub Chandra Sen (1838). After him are Anil Kapoor (1956), Ramananda (1400), Gangubai Hangal (1913), Oswald Gracias (1944), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), and Bhupen Hazarika (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Satish Kumar ranks 23. Before him are Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), Rattanbai Jinnah (1900), Harilal Gandhi (1888), Anna Hazare (1937), Khudiram Bose (1889), and M. N. Roy (1887). After him are Baba Amte (1914), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Ela Bhatt (1933), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), and Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842).

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