Marie Dorigny, a photographer, has travelled widely in India, to the places governed by Ekta Parishad, partner of Frères des Hommes. She has brought together her photographs for an exhibition entitled So far from Ghandi.
So far from Ghandi
In 1917, on his return from South Africa, Gandhi organized the peasants of Bihar in their fight against British landowners. This was his first combat in favour of the disinherited of his native land. Today, in this rural northeastern state, one of the poorest in India, very little has changed. The untouchables and the aborigines still suffer under the same powerful oppression: reduced to a state of near slavery by the higher castes, they are also thrown off their land by multinationals in full growth.
