TO GO WITH 'India-Switzerland-France-poverty-religion-literature-charity', FOCUS by Laurence Thomann
This picture taken on March 19, 2023, shows Brother Gaston Dayanand praying at the Inter-Religious Center of Development (ICOD) in Gohalapota village, Howrah district, southwest of Kolkata. More than four decades afer inspiring a best-selling novel that brought readers into slums near Calcutta, 86-year-old ascetic Gaston Dayanand is still working for India's "poorest". (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'India-Switzerland-France-poverty-religion-literature-charity', FOCUS by Laurence Thomann