The Cancer Train is about the notorious train from Bathinda to Bikaner cancer hospital. Punjab is facing an acute ecological crisis as a result of excessive use of harmful farm pesticides and other chemicals that have contaminated the soil, water and air. As a result people are facing serious ailments like cancer, liver dysfunction, mental retardation, stunted growth and many others. The Cancer Train touches almost every malady effecting rural Punjab and it seems that the solution to these crisis is beyond the power of the present dispensation. The author believes that the ruling cabal is working with a design to keep the people ill-educated and hooked to drugs so that they do not ask for jobs. This is a different matter that those problems have ruined thousands of families in the state. Nachhatar a sensitive son of soil, has been able to understand the plight of his people caught in a whirling vortex of time.