India’s Forest Man JADAB Mulai PAYENG

’Jadav Payeng’, aka Mulai now in his early 50’s many years back as a 16 year old, walking along the sandbanks, across the Brahmaputra river in Kokilamukh, Jorhat district of Assam, was saddened by the sight of many dead snakes along the barren sand bank due to lack of tree cover and extreme heat & humidity. This was a common sight every year after the flood water recedes. After a cold response from the village elders & forest officials for a solution, he realized that it is he - who has to do something ab