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  • Village journalist women work together, with hand-drawn illustrations and on their laptops, on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, walks to a remote village to distribute this week's Khabar Lahariya newspapers and interview villagers in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together, with hand-drawn illustrations and on their laptops, on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Village journalist women work together on their special report issue on the issue of violence against women during a workshop in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (right), 28, receives this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper from Sunita (unseen) at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Kamlesh reads the papers out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, prepares tea for her home-bound husband at their one bedroom house in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (2nd from right), 28, reads this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (2nd from right), 28, reads this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (right), 28, receives this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper from Sunita (unseen) at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Kamlesh reads the papers out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (center), 22, distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper to Kamlesh Kumari (right), 28, at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Kamlesh reads the papers out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, a community journalist since 2002 at Khabar Lahariya newspaper poses for a portrait at a dried up river in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  She has played a pivotal role in campaigning for water to be supplied to arid villages in the desert-like hills of Manikpur. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Villagers, all regular subscribers of Khabar Lahariya newspaper, reads this week's issue as it's being distributed by seasoned Khabar Lahariya community journalist Shanti Adivasi, 52, in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, prepares tea for her home-bound husband at their one bedroom house in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Kamlesh Kumari (3rd from right), 28, reads this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper out loud to her whole family and illiterate friends at her house in a village in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Kamlesh, a mother of 2, is a farmer, earning about 20000 rupees of sales per annum from her 2 acre farm. She dreams of becoming a journalist for Khabar Lahariya but is not able to apply since the newspaper only takes one reporter in each area, and Sunita is already working in the area. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (center), 22, interviews Bhagwat Dewedi (left), 48, a panchayat leader (village elder), as he walks home from his 25 acres of farming land in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (left), 22, interviews villagers in a group in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (left), 22, interviews villagers in a group in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, walks to a remote village to distribute this week's Khabar Lahariya newspapers and interview villagers in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita (right), 22, interviews villagers in a group in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Junior community reporter Sunita, 22, delivers a copy of this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper to a train gate controller in a remote location in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Sunita and her husband, now sick with TB and unable to work, were estranged from their families because they married against the family's wishes, so Sunita, who had finished her high-school education, supports her husband on the income she makes as a journalist. She makes about 4500 rupees a month. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, a community journalist since 2002 at Khabar Lahariya newspaper walks away from a small, remote village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  She has played a pivotal role in campaigning for water to be supplied to arid villages in the desert-like hills of Manikpur. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in her house, bought with the income she made from being a journalist, in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • A map of eastern Uttar Pradesh, showing Chitrakoot (left) and Allahabad (center) where Khabar Lahariya's nearby editions are sent via email for printing, hang on a wall where the workshop was held in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Different editions of Khabar Lahariya newspapers that is published in 6 different local language editions in the state of Uttar Pradesh strewn on the floor of a workshop room in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 04 December 2012. During these workshops, editors from Khabar Lahariya's Nirantar NGO headquarters in Delhi come to spend the week with the regional and village-level journalists and editors to work on special report issues and fine-tune their skills for running their regional operations with minimal support from the main office. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, sells a few copies of this week's newspapers to villagers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, speaks with a group of illiterate women, as they wait to attend a group reading of this week's newspapers in their village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod's sister Mukta (center), 22, prepares lunch for their large family at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, sells a few copies of this week's newspapers to villagers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, folds the newspapers at home before heading out to distribute them to her subscribers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, helps her sisters to prepare lunch as her sister Nayna (left), 27, combs her hair at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers prepare to print the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers cut the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers print the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the Khabar Lahariya Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • A traditional Dalit woman walks past as Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • (Clockwise from left) Niru, 24, and her sisters, Daksha 15, Kailash, 19, Mukta, 22, and Nayna 27 carrying her son Dev 3, and their father Jethabhai Rathod, 60 pose for a family Portrait at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to Jethabhai, a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, looks through her video footage on her camera while her sister Mukta (center), 22,  attends to a tailoring customer at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, looks at her two seamstress sisters Mukta, 22, and Kailash (center), 19, as she reads the newspaper at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, looks at her two seamstress sisters Mukta, 22, and Kailash (center), 19, as she reads the newspaper at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod's sister Mukta (center), 22, attends to her tailoring customers at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, shoots an overview of a remote village to fit into her documentaries on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with traditional women villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Crows play in the wind above a river with low water levels in Surendranagar a small town area where Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, makes documentaries on topics of water and other socio-environmental issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • An elderly man walks through agricultural lands as children play a village game in the fields in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in a village house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, chats with villagers as she distributes this week's Khabar Lahariya newspaper in a remote tribal village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, walks with a group of illiterate villagers, to conduct a reading of this week's newspapers under the community People Tree in their village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, interviews a worker in a roadside food stall in Jawaharnagar area in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • A subscriber of Khabar Lahariya reads his copy of this week's newspapers at his snacks shop in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, gets dressed in her home, where she lives with her 3 generation family of 14, in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (unseen), 52, gets dressed to go to work as her daughter-in-law (left) cooks for the family in their house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in white saree), 52, interviews Siya Saran (right) and Bacchi Saran (center), heads of a family of illiterate tribal villagers in their housing compound in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in white saree), 52, interviews a family of tribal villagers in their housing compound in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in white saree), 52, interviews villagers while distributing this week's newspapers to her subscribers such as Ayodhya Prasad Sen (right), 37, who said of Shanti, "she's a woman with a man's heart, to be able to come into these jungles and do the work she does", in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Raju Narisetti, publisher and editor of Mint, India's fastest growing business newspaper, poses for a photograph in his office on 10th November 2008.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National.
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  • Raju Narisetti, publisher and editor of Mint, India's fastest growing business newspaper, poses for a photograph in his office on 10th November 2008.  Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National.
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (left), 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, folds the newspapers at home before heading out to distribute them to her subscribers in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • A subscriber of Khabar Lahariya reads his copy of this week's newspapers at his snacks shop in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in green saree), 52, looks at a chart on the wall of the Khabar Lahariya district office in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 5th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in white saree), 52, interviews a family of tribal villagers in their housing compound in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 4th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, works without electricity on her interview notes while her granchildren play around her on a row of beds she shares with her family of 14 in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Workers fold the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers fold the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Mohit Bhargava, the printing company owner, poses for a portrait in front of one of his printing machines in his printing workshop that prints the Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers cut the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Workers prepare to print the current issue of Khabar Lahariya weekly newspaper, after receiving the files from the newspaper's Chitrakoot office, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 06 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • A regional editor works on the layout of a special report issue about violence against women in the regional office in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 05 December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Villagers buy vegetables from a minivan in a remote village where Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, is making documentaries on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, looks through her video footage on her camera while her sister Kailash (left), 19, sews clothes for customers at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, shows some pictures to her sister Kailash (left), 19, who works at home as a seamstress in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, reads the newspaper with the TV running news channels in the background as her sister Daksha (left), 15, walks past at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, helps her sisters to prepare lunch as her sister Nayna (left), 27, combs her hair at home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. While Niru's sisters have become seamstresses or housewives, Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, helps her sisters with household chores at their home in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (center, in green), 24, sits for a group portrait with an upper caste family that discriminated against her when she first met them but now respect her for the social change she has brought about in their remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. The last time Niru had come to their home, she was discriminated against and served tea in a saucer meant for lower castes. Now, after seeing the effects of her video activism, the family no longer discriminates against her. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • An upper caste family listens as Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with their family members in their home on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. The last time Niru had come to their home, she was discriminated against and served tea in a saucer meant for lower castes. Now, after seeing the effects of her video activism, the family no longer discriminates against her. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • An upper caste family listens as Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with their family members in their home on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. The last time Niru had come to their home, she was discriminated against and served tea in a saucer meant for lower castes. Now, after seeing the effects of her video activism, the family no longer discriminates against her. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with Panchayat men (village leaders) on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (left), 24, does spot interviews with villagers on topics of caste discrimination and water quality issues in a remote village in Surendranagar, Gujarat, India on 14 December 2012. Niru, the 8th child in a family of 11 girls born to a Dalit construction worker, has been using videography for social change since 2006. She shoots and produces her own short documentaries and is a committed video activist, having conducted hundreds of village video screenings where she also speaks to thousands of men, shattering their ideas about what a woman and a Dalit can do while bringing massive changes to the communities she documents. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie Claire France
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, works without electricity on her interview notes while her granchildren play around her on a row of beds she shares with her family of 14 in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi, 52, works without electricity on her interview notes while her granchildren play around her on a row of beds she shares with her family of 14 in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in a village house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Community reporter Shanti Adivasi, 52, sits for a portrait in a village house in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012. Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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  • Shanti Adivasi (in yellow saree), 52, takes photographs to illustrate her articles in future issues of Khabar Lahariya newspaper of the Banda (language) edition in a village in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th December 2012.  Shanti used to be a wood gatherer, working with her parents since she was 3, and later carrying up to 100 kg of wood walking 12km from the dry jungle hills to her home to repack the wood which sold for 3 rupees per kg. After learning to read and write in an 8 month welfare course, at age 32, she became a reporter, joining Khabar Lahariya newspaper since its establishment in 2002, and making about 9000 rupees per month, supporting her family of 14 as the sole breadwinner. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Marie Claire France.
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