LIGHTMEDIATION » gandhi http://www.lightmediation.net/blog Agence de Reportages Photographiques Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 India, land of the Landless. http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/15/india-land-of-the-landless/ http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/15/india-land-of-the-landless/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:01:50 +0000 Thierry Tinacci http://www.lightmediation.net/blog/?p=441

–These photos were exposed at « Visa pour l’image », for the 20th anniversary of the festival, in September, 2008.–

Soon after his return from South Africain 1917 led his first political struggle in the state of Bihar, in support of peasant small holders against British indigo planters. In the course of doing so, he earned the title of Mahatma,The Great Soul.

More than ninety years later, little has changed in this largely rural state situated in northern , which remains one of the poorest in the country., illiteracy and violence: the daily life of the poor and maginalised in today is a world apart from the ideals that were set by ’s prophet of non-violence, Mahatma .

Photos ©/LightMediation Text ®Christèle Dedebant

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