Reading Climate Change in Indira Goswami's The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker

Indira Goswami's The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker was primarily analysed as a socio-political novel. The present paper argues the novel's most exclusive offering to the domain of climate change is more explicit in tone and essence. The story indeed deploys socio-political issues but it also accomplishes a course of allegories by focussing on different forms of climate change in relation to social inequality. The different allegories here revolve around the interaction between the protagonist, Indranath and those he encounters in his life. The different characters’ interaction also functions as allegories of the entire North-eastern region, local and global landscape. The novel's climate change allegories indeed raise socio-political concerns, these are often raised as contested issues. The paper also discusses the allegorical phenomenon through the novel's narrative framework, particularly its intent narrative. It also provides a means for Goswami to allegorically explore the means in which the local enthusiasts experience change in climate that again affects their culture.