Peepal Baba

It's out of respect.

Right.

So I was identified with the plant.

Okay.

So honestly, it was not my name.

I got identified because I was working for them.

That is how people baba came.

So it became a nickname and people found it very convenient to address me by that name because wherever I went on my two wheelers and I walked in two villages and everything, I would be carrying these people's saplings with me.

You know, I would ask the local panchayat men and the local elders of the villages that, okay, fine.

You know, if you have a place around the well, around the pond, may I, you know, you can.

because everything was free so they would say no no no but we would prefer if you put some neem trees we would prefer if you give us some jamun trees i would buy them and i would plant them also whatever the people said so uh i was not rigid about it and there were many many places where they did not allow me to plant the ficus trees so i said no problem they said no you plant this this is this okay so i planted those also and then i would go around i would

And villages were very, very, those days were very beautiful days.

They would always say, okay, we will water the plants.

We will take care of them.

Don't you worry.

These days, urban living, everybody lives in apartments and bungalows.

They have their own silos.

The community is not on the ground.

So things are very different now.

And again and again, I would say those were very happy days.