in the village chief and 65 year old poor young show us their land. here where their crops one screw we find a lunar landscape ready for planting new rubber trees. the company took our fields and graves and now they ve even stripped bare our sacred mountain. the people of concrete fused to work for these new masters on their own fields. like many other villages they re demanding the return of their land but they don t have much hope in the meantime new settlements have sprung up on their fields they house women and men who have moved to the area to work on the rubber plantations. they to live in desperate
accordance with their own traditions. but those times are over their fertile fields were practically stolen from them. big international companies bought the land from the government land that had been in the communities hands for generations. amid the global hunger for natural rubber the villagers fields were plowed up to plant rubber trees. call a day to day in their community has lost almost all its land. when they rolled onto our fields with bulldozers we stood up against them. but we didn t have a chance. to help. from there they ve taken everything from us many families have nothing to eat.
a mix of indian film music classical music and pop as if to show that contrasts can also result in harmony. in. the neighboring village also has western influences to get there we have to cross this bridge it s made of the roots of huge rubber trees the locals call it the living bridge nobody quite knows how old it is probably way over two hundred years it s unlikely though it ll last that long again the number of tourists crossing it is growing all the time. they re on their way to a difference even bigger attraction to be found in the middle of the rainforest close to the border with bangladesh. the cleanest village not just in india but in the whole of asia. a
a mix of indian film music classical music and pop as if to show that contrasts can also result in harmony. in. the neighboring village also has western influences to get there we have to cross this bridge it s made of the roots of huge rubber trees the locals call it the living bridge nobody quite knows how old it is probably way over two hundred years it s unlikely though it will last that long again the number of tourists crossing it is growing all the time. they re on their way to a difference even bigger attraction to be found in the middle of the rainforest close to the border with bangladesh. the cleanest village not just in india but in the whole of asia. a
the neighboring village also has western influences to get there we have to cross this bridge it s made of the roots of huge rubber trees the locals call it the living bridge nobody quite knows how old it is probably way over two hundred years it s unlikely though it ll last that long again the number of tourists crossing it is growing all the time. they re on their way to a difference even bigger attraction to be found in the middle of the rainforest close to the border with bangladesh. the cleanest village not just in india but in the whole of asia. a major travel magazine gave mali known this title what s striking about the place is what s absent there s no garbage lying around instead there are many trash baskets