Ecofeminist Re-Readings of Myth: The Natural World and The Feminine in Deepa Sahu’s Sita

This paper explores Deepa Sahu’s retelling of the Ramayana as an ecofeminist narrative that re-centres Sita as both woman and symbol of the earth. Drawing on the insights of Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, Bina Agarwal, and Cheryll Glotfelty, the paper argues that Sahu’s novel re-imagines the mythic heroine not as a passive sufferer but as a figure of ecological awareness and resistance to patriarchal and colonial structures. The study shows how the novel re-animates cultural memory of human-nature reciprocity, recasting myth as a resource for post-colonial ecofeminist ethics.