Singh inspires with this biography of Jadav Payeng (b. 1959), who since 1979 has planted and sustained a forest on a river-adjacent sandbar in northeast India. As a youth, Payeng witnesses the death ...

DIBRUGARH: Unidentified miscreants set fire on Sunday to the Molai Kathoni 2.0 forest, a newly cultivated green cover created by “Forest Man of India” Jadav Payeng and his 21-year-old daughter, ...

Virender Sehwag recently tweeted the story of conservationist Jadav Payeng known as the 'Forest Man of India'. And his tweets have left Twitter thoroughly impressed.

Jadav Payeng, known as the Forest Man of India, transformed a barren sandbar on Majuli Island into a 550-hectare forest over more than 30 years. Beginning in 1979 after witnessing dead snakes on ...

This is the second in a series of two articles telling the story of Molai, a forest in the Indian state of Assam that was planted by Jadav Payeng over 35 years. Read the first part here. Jadav “Molai” ...

Telangana-based water conservationist M. Karunakar Reddy on Sunday (March 30, 2025) received the first award named after Assam’s Jadav Payeng, a grassroots green activist better known as the ‘Forest ...

On a journey to the little known Northeast region of India, you may encounter a dizzying array of traditional tribes, rugged beauty and wildlife, including the rare white rhinos. It's here we discover ...

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Gaurav Gogoi, on Monday, strongly condemned the incident of arson allegedly carried out by miscreants at Molai Kathoni, the forest created by globally ...

A portion of environmentalist Jadav Payeng’s Molai Kathoni 2.0 reforestation project along the Brahmaputra River in Assam’s Majuli district was damaged after it was allegedly set afire on Sunday.