Old Man River (52 min; dvd; English)

Director: Gautam Bora

 

98 year old Kurak Pegu has worked hard all his life to survive and sustain his family along the flood prone Majuli in Assam. He knows that the Brahmaputra river has been both kind and harsh at the same time. He knows the river inside out and believes that the wisdom of this traditional knowledge handed down to him by his forefathers will give him the strength to cope with all the odds of nature

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)