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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, 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, studies law while her sisters Mukta (top), 22, and Kailash, 19, sew 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 (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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  • 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, 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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  • 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 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, 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'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'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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod (right), 24, studies law while her sisters Mukta (top), 22, and Kailash, 19, sew 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 (right), 24, studies law while her sister Mukta (left), 22, 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 (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 (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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  • 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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  • An upper caste woman (left) serves tea to a Dalit midwife in a saucer meant for people of the Dalit caste, in a house where Video Volunteer videojournalist Niru J. Rathod, 24, is doing an interview on topics of caste discrimination 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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  • 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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  • Razor-sharp mountain ranges as we ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Suzanne Lee's Sony ActionCam mounted on the leg guard while Sanjit Das (left) starts the bike as they ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during their trip Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Tiny rural villages flank the road near Mulbek village as we ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Roads snake between the rocky mountain tops of the high-altitude desert of the Ladakh Valley, home to some of the World's Highest Motorable roads, during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Distant horizons and a lonely road like a runway through the middle as we ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Suzanne Lee's Sony ActionCam mounted on the leg guard of the bike as they ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during their trip Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Tibetan prayer flags flutter violently in the wind as Suzanne Lee and Sanjit Das stop to take pictures as they ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during their trip Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Short distance passengers pack the second class coaches at the crowded Kottayam Stn., Kerala on 9th July 2009.. .6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest single train journey, spanning 3720 kms, going from the mountains (Hima) to the seas (Sagar), from Jammu and Kashmir state of the Indian Himalayas to Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of India...Photo by Suzanne Lee / for The National
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  • A Punjabi farmer rides for a short while at the door of the Himsagar Express 6318 on 7th July 2009, with the wheat fields of Punjab passing by.. .6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest single train journey, spanning 3720 kms, going from the mountains (Hima) to the seas (Sagar), from Jammu and Kashmir state of the Indian Himalayas to Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of India...Photo by Suzanne Lee / for The National
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  • Panos Photographers Suzanne Lee and Sanjit Das while riding through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads as they went Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras.
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  • A view of the outskirts of Leh, the capital of the Valley of Ladakh, while on our journey over some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Using the clamp mount, Suzanne Lee takes time-lapse shots from a window in Leh town, the capital of the Valley of Ladakh, taking an acclimatising break from her journey over some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during an adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • A sign for NH1 - the National Highway 1 of India as we pass through the dry moonscape of the Ladakh high-altitude desert, riding through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • The dry moonscape of the Ladakh high-altitude desert as we ride through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads during our adventure Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Panos Photographers Suzanne Lee and Sanjit Das (3rd and 4th from left) and their friends rode through some of the World's Highest Motorable roads as they went Across the Himalayas in the Valley of Ladakh, India, on Royal Enfield motorcycles in June 2014. A resulting 4 minute short film was made, all shot on an arsenal of Sony ActionCam video cameras. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Panos Pictures
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  • Policemen usher short distance passengers out of the 'disabled passengers' coach to the second class coaches at the crowded Kottayam Stn., Kerala on 9th July 2009.. .6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest single train journey, spanning 3720 kms, going from the mountains (Hima) to the seas (Sagar), from Jammu and Kashmir state of the Indian Himalayas to Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of India...Photo by Suzanne Lee / for The National
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  • Nisha Goswamy aged 18, and her nephew Ronil Goswami aged 3, look out the window at the greenery of Madhya Pradesh after rain as they pass from Itarsi Junction to Nagpur stn.. They are travelling in a group of 24 people from Bhopal to Kanyakumari for a short holiday and a pilgrimage to 2 temples...Train passengers on the Himsagar Express 6318 going from Jammu Tawi station to Kanyakumari on 8th July 2009.. .6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest single train journey, spanning 3720 kms, going from the mountains (Hima) to the seas (Sagar), from Jammu and Kashmir state of the Indian Himalayas to Kanyakumari, which is the southern most tip of India...Photo by Suzanne Lee / for The National
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