The above picture of Mohandas K. Gandhi was taken by Margaret Bourke-White just hours before his assassination. Such a beautiful picture clearly demanded a camera tripod. Gandhi is pictured with the spinning wheel (charkha), the symbol of Indian independence. Gandhi had hoped the charkha would assist Indians to achieve self-sufficiency and independence. Bourke-White, according to Somini Sengupta, was “one of the most effective chroniclers” of the violence that ensued at the independence and partition of India and Pakistan. Sengupta calls Bourke’s photos of the episode; “gut-wrenching, and staring at them, you glimpse the photographer’s undaunted desire to stare down at horror. Bourke-White’s photographs seem to scream on the page.” In the 2006 reissue of Khushwant Singh’s 1956 novel ‘Train to Pakistan’, sixty-six of Bourke-White’s photographs of the violence during partition were included. As Alfred Eisenstaedt, her close friend and colleague, said, one of her greatest strengths was that there existed no assignment or picture that she felt was unimportant.