Eco-criticism in Indian english literature

Environmental problems have assumed global proportions. Environmental concerns and issues associated with it affect people across the globe, the universe. Nature and literature have always worked in close affinity as found in writers down the ages. Interrelationship between man and Nature thus becomes all the more accentuated and this is perceptible and in fact visible today because literature plays such an important role. Literature in English, both by Indians and foreign authors, offers innumerable instances highlighting Ecology, Eco-criticism, Environment, Ecosystem, and Ecosphere, and all this relates to interrelationships amongst nature, human beings, animals and birds, which in turn makes a very absorbing study. This paper analyses the representative works of Indian literary heavy weights like Salman Rushdie, R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Ruskin Bond, Amitava Ghosh, etc. Apart from the writers mentioned here or analysed in this paper there are other noteworthy writers who have carved out their own place in this literary firmament. It is a well known fact that nature gives as well as takes back, just as nature protects and destroys too. The same principles of giving and taking, protecting and destroying apply in equal measure to human beings, animals and birds. This concept of give and take is encouraged, promoted, and practised. It becomes truly an eco-friendly environment for all of us to live on this planet happily hereafter.