Leaves Torn Out of Life

This collection of short essays is a first person narrative of the different aspects of the simple and symbiotic village life which was/is disturbed and destroyed by 'development' that subverts the symbiotic relationship between the Environment and the human beings. The underlying thread of the essays is a passionate love for the Environment that sustains Life on Planet Earth. The essays deal with almost all aspects of human life-gender issues, our education system that deprives the children of their childhood, political hypocrisy, and die environmental devastation that causes cataclysmic climate changes. Leaves torn out of Life invokes the readers to shed the anthropocentric outlook that has been the root cause of the human onslaught against the Environment, in order to avert the climate catastrophe that is imminent.