No Trees No Life (This Novel is About Environment Especially on Trees)

Dr. Kulwinder Kaur Minhas is double M.A in Punjabi and English, B.ed. and Ph.D. in Punjabi from Punjab University Chandigarh. She is the author of 25 books in Punjabi and English. She is a well- known social worker and an educationist, who gave up her teaching career to serve the slum children at Ludhiana where she is running a charitable school, "Gyan Anjan Academy" for them.

• The tree said, "If man keeps on butchering us at this pace, warming up of environment is natural. Surely, there is not going to be a cool breeze. The reason for warming up is the decrease in the number of trees. Man does not try to understand it."

• An enraged tree roared back, "You understand very well what I mean. If you keep on butchering and murdering my companions like this, the day of deluge is not far away. That deluge will drown everything and everybody. There is still time to save the situation!...... Stay alert!......Pay heed!...."

This is an interesting novel about Environment especially on trees. If there is no water, there will be no life, in the same way if there are no trees, there will be no life. Life of all creatures including men depend on trees. Trees help to bring rain, take water inside earth through their roots, gives us Oxygen and different types of furniture. Trees play an important role in man's life from his birth to death.

But in this materialistic life man is only after money. He is indifferent towards tress. To fulfill his selfish purposes he is cutting trees without thinking deeply, what he is doing. Infact he is cutting that branch of a tree on which he himself is sitting. Today what man is doing with trees, one day he will ruin himself.

Quantity of trees are decreasing day by day and temprature of the whole world is increasing. Many forests have been cut down by man. It is a subject of great worry today.

In this novel trees are personified. They speak like man. They are worried about their tribe because man is bent on to kill their tribe. Some trees are old a century or more than that. Such trees have seen many ups and downs of the society. They have their own history. They are treasure of knowledge and great memories.

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