When They See The Man In The River, They Can't Bel...

By the late 1990s, the Indian village of Seechewal was in environmental turmoil. The sacred Kali Bein river running through the community was blighted by decades of neglect. By now, the river had been reduced to a drain choked by the industrial waste dumped into it. Devout villagers who bathed in the vile, stagnant water risked becoming extremely ill.The impact on local wildlife was also just as devastating. Appalled by this atrocity, holy man Balbir Singh Seechewal took matters into his own hands...