The long march of PV Rajagopal

One hot Friday in October, a 64-year-old man named P.V. Rajagopal is marching at the head of a procession of around 50,000 people on the highway from Gwalior to Delhi. Rajagopal is slight and heavily sunburnt, and has walked tens of thousands of kilometres over the years, but he looks young, smiles easily, and walks at a pace that suggests the constitution of a man half his age. The distance to Delhi is around 350km, but this may well be Rajagopal’s most important march.

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