Ram, who was bedridden and counting his last breaths was taken in an ambulance to his eco-park at Chengalpattu in the onset of dawn. He was laid beneath his Neem tree. The spectrum of sun rays piercing through the leaves of the tree looked like the heaven calling him spreading its hands and the branches were waving saying goodbye. Ram's memories went back to the days he spent with his father - When Ram asked his father whether this tree was really needed while shifting their house from Madurai, the way his father answered got engraved in his mind and soul - "Ram! Can you live without your lungs? Trees are the lungs of the earth, serving mankind round the clock purifying air to sustain ecological balance." As maintaining the tree in a rented house is difficult, his father replanted it in a vacant plot near the house. Worried about the future of the tree, he purchased the plot though he couldn't afford it and converted it into a garden. When Ram was a...