Ghosts on Peepal Trees is the memoir of Swami Prem Parivartan, known to millions as Peepal Baba: one of India s most respected environmentalists.

Drawn from his handwritten notes, scattered across diaries, napkins, in the margins of newspapers and waste sheets of paper, the stories transport you into his childhood s lanes of Dehradun and the green cantonment of Pune where two remarkable women his grandmother and a primary school teacher- inculcated the curiosity and respect for life that led him to becoming Peepal Baba.
While travelling across 220 Indian districts, he finally understands how his grandmother s stories about ghosts on trees were actually lessons in how faith protects forests. How simple, honest acts of care, rooted in devotion rather than ambition, can draw millions into a movement, even when it has no structure and no name.
Honest and quietly transformative, Ghosts on Peepal Trees is a reminder that we already know how to listen to the earth, to the stories that the soil tells us, and to feel the love in the shade of a tree and the poetry in the rustle of its leaves.

We just need to remember.