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Gulab Bai, 75 years old

Gulab Bai participated in the 2006 Padyatra (march), in which she had vested much hope. “I was shocked to see how the government could make such promises without ever keeping them. I am determined to see our demands met, no matter what the cost. (...) I am marching for justice and the dignity of all the victims suffering from corporate abuses and the negligence of our government. This march is all the more important as it carries with it all of the efforts of the first march…"

Image: © Micha Patault

The Padyatra is an act of civil disobedience deployed toward political ends by Gandhi as part of his concept of Satyagraha (nonviolent resistance). Later, this concept would be applied in a systematic way in the service of a wide range of political protests.
800 km separates Bhopal from New Delhi. The padyatris (walker) covered an average of 25 kms a day, from 5am to 6pm, for 38 days.