Peepal Baba

That's what my grandparents used to always say.

And my grandparents, they were such happy souls.

No competition, nothing.

In fact, my grandparents, they were very successful farmers for the sheer reason that there was no competition.

They never worked on cash crops.

You know, they were mainly on vegetables and fruit farming and mango orchards and my...

Even my paternal grandfather, you know, like it was basically land which he rented out to smaller farmers.

He was very compassionate and we had buffaloes and dairy and milk and it was very easygoing, very nice and whatever could happen, you do.

If you find it very difficult, don't do it.

You know, that's it.

So that was the programming that those were the codes I picked up from my life also.

Very beautiful.

you were like you know the reason why they call you baba is because like you were swami, prem, parivartan no no you did not do that people baba happened much before that even before that even before that it was during my college days and I used to I had been planting over 10 to 15 years I had been

Even during my DAV college days and my Allahabad University days, my Pune University days, when I did my post graduation.

So I used to plant these people trees.

My main thing, when I learned about afforestation, I learned about soil, I learned about biodiversity, about bees and insects and everything was through people trees.

My grandmother would say, you pick up one tree, pick up one plant, pick up one species, start planting them and the species will teach you.

So the tree will teach you and pick up that species which nobody is planting.

So people tree was something with the PWD, the CPWD, the government departments, the botany department, the horticulture department, nobody planted it.

They said, no, if it grows naturally, the birds, you know, they...