Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2005:

Despite barely scraping by, and hounded by death threats and false suits, Nanda's work with the landless is a symbol of her indefatigability.

Nanda Rani Das

Jharabarsha Women's Landless Organization

Nanda Rani Das (born 1960) is much of many things-women's rights activist, mobilizer of the landless, an ideal of courage and integrity. For more than 24 years, ignoring her own hand-to-mouth existence, she has been organizing landless people to regroup for their rights. Fighting corruption in its every den, she was the first to bring up the issue of land rights for minority community women at the local level.