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 ...

Thirty years ago, Jadav Payeng was distraught watching snakes die for lack of shade on a barren sandbar in the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India. He moved to the sandbar, began planting seeds there, ...

What do you do after you have single-handedly grown a forest over 30 years? If you are Jadav Payeng, you start growing another and a much bigger forest nearby. On a recent morning, the breeze is fresh ...

Mindshare Content+, a part of GroupM along with Tropicana, a brand from PepsiCo and 101India, have collaborated for a campaign, #GiftATree. As part of the new campaign, Tropicana would plant a tree on ...

Jadav "Molai" Payeng, the ‘Forest Man of India’, has achieved something many would find unimaginable. The Padma Shri awardee is known for single-handedly planting nearly 1,400 acres of forest on a ...

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 ...

Early morning, on the day before Bihu, the Assamese new year, Jadav Molai Payeng picked up his mobile phone at half a ring. He said he was about to board the canoe that takes him to his forest every ...

Virender Sehwag's tweets have touched a chord with many on Twitter. In a shift from his usual quips and birthday wishes, former Indian opener and current Twitter king Virender Sehwag recently tweeted ...

Padma Shri Jadav Payeng, popularly as the “Forest Man of India”, has appealed to the masses to observe a seven-day lockdown as an annual festival. In his message on Earth Day on Wednesday, Payeng told ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We’ve long known the benefits of habits–even before Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Successful people have sidchas. Not all, but many ...