Man of the Trees
I read with interest John Moat’s article ‘The Tree Man’ (Resurgence 253) and I am very interested to note its source for I find in it a true story. There was indeed such a man, and his good name was Visheswar Dutt Saklani and he lived in the high Garhwal Himalayas of Western India. I was introduced to him in Uttarkashi in 1989 by the great Chipko leader Sunderlal Bahuguna on our walk up to Gangotri – the sacred glacial source of the Ganges river. Saklani planted thousands of oak trees on the south-facing ridge from Mussoorie to Garhwal, carrying a bag of acorns just ...
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