Reclaiming Nature Through Storytelling: An Ecoaesthetic Analysis of Tejaswi's Carvalho

This paper discusses eco-aesthetic consciousness in the narrations of Poornachandra Tejaswi, primarily concerned with his famous novel Carvalho. The research focuses on the novel's eco-aesthetic elements, and the author's narratives encourage the readers to conserve the ecosystem around the Western Ghats of South India. The author's narrative skill celebrates Karnataka's biodiversity while critiquing human exploitative tendencies. The presentation of ecosystems is through characters like the love between animals, the destructive effect of greed, and the urgent call for man to reconnect with nature. They have conflict and growth, emphasizing the neighbourhood and environmental conservation since they depict people as ecosystem stewards. Tejaswi has social dimensions, gives a social commentary on injustice, and talks of adaptations and relations to cultures. Through characters, the novel paints ecosystems in a social and anthropomorphic outlook, portraying ecosystems as impacting human and animal characters. The works of Tejaswi show that he was a proponent of humane relations between humans and animals and how the greedy behaviuor of the former has led to the disastrous consequences evident in his works.