Charles Darwin said that the beginning of all life on earth probably happened in a warm pond billions of years ago," Malhar Indulkar, a young grassroots conservationist, says in a new documentary released on YouTube.

He continues, "I wondered what that pond looked like, where it all began. It must have looked like any other pond. This is why I think any little thing in the natural world, no matter how ordinary looking, it is worth protecting." Twenty-six-year-old Indulkar introduces us to the magic of Maharashtra's Myristica swamps (tropical fresh water swamp forests with an abundance of Myristica trees) in the latest short film, Sacred.