Gopi Shankar Madurai

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gopi Shankar Madurai
Occupation	Indigenist
Date Of Birth	Apr 13, 1991(1991-04-13)
Age	33
Birthplace	Madurai
Country	India
Horoscope	Aries

Gopi Shankar Madurai Biography

Gopi Shankar Madurai is one of the most popular and richest Indigenist who was born on April 13, 1991 in Madurai, India. Gopi Shankar Madurai (Tamil: koopi ssngkr mturai born 13 April 1991) is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist. Shankar was among the youngest, as well as the first genderqueer and intersex openly candidate in the 2016’s Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. Shankar is the person who founded the Srishti Madurai Student Volunteer Collective. Shankar’s work influenced to the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) to order the Government of Tamil Nadu to ordain a ban on sexual reconstitution surgeries for intersex children. In December of 2017, Shankar became a member of the Executive Board of ILGA Asia.

In 2015, Shankar in 2015, Shankar Indian lawmakers to include intersex individuals in a legislation to protect trans rights. Shankar also filed an official complaint to the National Human Rights Commission of India to prohibit the forced sex-selective surgeries for intersex babies and also to guarantee their right to constitutional protection in India in which case the NHRC issued a directive to the Secretary of the Union Health Ministry Government of India to answer Shankar within 8 weeks.

In 2016 Shankar was sexually, verbally harassed and received death threats from a member of one of the political parties during Shankar’s campaign, then the Tamil Nadu Police assigned Shankar with three security officers whenever Shankar is out campaigning. Shankar also expressed dismay on homophobia and transphobia in Tamil Muslim community when the youth wing of the Indian National League, a Muslim party, Calling LGBTQIA+ people as “cultural terrorists”, the poster calls for the “death sentence under section 377” and warns of terror against the community as homosexuality is “against Tamil culture” was put up by a day after 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting in the United States.

Shankar petitioned the case of Asian Games medalist Santhi Soundarajan who was stripped of her medal after a gender test to the State and Central Government. Shankar launched multiple complaints on behalf of athlete Santhi in National Commission for Scheduled Castes and National Human Rights Commission of India also initiated Justice For Santhi Campaign which was instrumental in fetching her a permanent posting as athletic coach in Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority in December 2016.

Shankar and transwoman S. Swapna staged a protest in the Madurai collectorate on October 7, 2013 in order to demand reservation and allow trans women to participate for the examinations conducted through TNPSC, UPSC, SSC and Bank Exams. Then, Swapna successfully moved the Madras High Court in 2013 asking for permission to take an exam for the TNPSC Group II examination as a woman candidate.

Gopi Shankar Madurai Net Worth

Gopi Shankar Madurai is one of the richest Indigenist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gopi Shankar Madurai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shankar was born Sarvapunya in the Sellur slum of Madurai, Tamil Nadu. At fourteen years of age, Shankar started volunteering Ramakrishna Mission. In the following years, Shankar was admitted as a probationer in order to be monks within the Ramakrishna Math. The year 2005 was the time Shankar received spiritual introduction to the lineage spiritual of Swami Vivekananda by Swami Gitanandaji (Former Vice-President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission) who is also a disciple of Swami Virajananda. While Shankar was in Ramakrishna Math, Shankar served as an secretary to the Editor of Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam Magazine. In April of 2010 Shankar quit Ramakrishna Math to pursue Religion as well as Philosophy and Sociology study in The American College in Madurai (affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University). Gopi is a student at Yoga for over 15 years. He also served as a Yoga instructor for five years. Shankar taught Yoga at no cost to over 5000 kids as well as an Indian Philosophy classes for numerous westerners, such as Tony MacMahon of Ireland. Shankar worked as a freelancer with New Horizon Media Pvt Ltd (Tamil Publications). Shankar was awarded a Leadership Award “Leading Change” exclusively for The Queen’s Young Leaders from the University of Cambridge in 2017.

Shankar is the founder of the Srishti Madurai Volunteer Movement one of the first non-funded, inclusive pro bono organizations of its kind that includes academicians, independent Human Rights activists, scholars animal rights activists, environmentalists and LGBTQIA genderqueer activists who aim to safeguard the Indigenous tradition. In October of 2011, Shankar created India’s first helpline dedicated to LGBTQIA and genderqueer people in Madurai. In June 2013, the helpline began to offer assistance 24 hours a day with the tagline “Just having someone who can talk to you could save the life of someone. Shankar also arranged the first Asian Genderqueer Pride Parade at Madurai. Shankar also launched LGBTQIA classes in a few schools and universities . Shankar is also an youthful panelist in a chair shared by the University Grants Commission of India (UGC) and Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) sponsors of National Seminars in India, Shankar led more than 85 seminars and interactive workshops about Gender & Sexuality for 8000 students in Madurai. Shankar created the regional Tamil term for people who are genderqueer and also wrote Maraikkappatta Pakkangal the first book about Gender-Variants written in Tamil. In April of 2015, Shankar was invited by Tiruchi Siva to attend the passage of the historical Rights of Transgender Persons Bill 2014 in the Rajya Sabha upper house of the Parliament of India. In recognition of his contributions as a minority gender towards Hinduism, Shankar was presented “Young Hindu Award” by the writer Aravindan Neelakandan, Joe D Cruz at the 6th Hindu Spiritual Services Fair.

Shankar was also awarded the Diversity Leadership Award 2016 by the World HRD Congress and featured in ‘India’s 8 LGBT role models under 30’ by Gaysi for voicing intersex rights in India.Out Leadership recommended Gopi Shankar as one of the expert and openly advocating leaders on LGBT+ issues along with Indian Minister Arun Jaitley and human rights activist Anjali GopalanIndia Times listed Shankar as one of the 11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others With A Dignified Life

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Shankar is one of the core committee members of Intersex Asia, it is the Asia’s first collective forum for Intersex Individuals and organisations, the first state policy briefing on Intersex Human Rights was organised by Shankar in July 2019.

Facts & Trivia

Gopi Ranked on the list of most popular Indigenist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Gopi Shankar Madurai celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.