A 50,000-Person, 217-Mile March for Land Reform

Just one day after thousands of cute little kids flooded into streets all over India dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi to celebrate the national hero's birthday, tens of thousands of Indians have gathered together for another march – one just as much inspired by the vaunted civil rights leader. Today, more than 50,000 landless rural residents embark on a 217-mile long march from the central city of Gwalior to the capital, Delhi, to demand land reform.

Landless peasants from all around the country gathered together for the march, which is aimed at drawing attention to the need for a top-down approach to granting land rights to the country's most impoverished people. Legal title to land is the best way to help bring people out of poverty, according to the activists who organized the march.