WEST BENGAL/JHARKHAND, India -- Sipping on a cooling rice beer more than 1,000 kilometers from New Delhi, Mangal Murumu never imagined he would find himself at the molten center of the great Indian climate crisis.
Murumu, a farmer from Hirapur in the far eastern state of Jharkhand, is a member of India's Adivasi community -- a group of indigenous peoples whose beliefs include animism and a sustainable lifestyle in nature's midst.