In 2001, I traveled with writer Jacques Leslie to photograph activist Medha Patkar in her effort to stop the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the sacred Narmada River in western India. She succeeded in getting the World Bank to defund the dam, but it was later completed with funds from the Indian government. Fifteen years after receiving a Goldman Environmental Prize, Medha was still struggling to improve the lives of thousands of tribal villagers who were being displaced by the dam. The villagers of Domekedhi once met under this sacred meeting tree which was now flooded by the Narmada. Medha Patkar unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide here to protest the raising of the height of the dam by drowning herself in the rising waters of the sacred river.