Environmental Consciousness and Climate Concern: A Study of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

In this paper, an attempt is made to estimate that The Hungry Tide foregrounds environmental consciousness and climatic concern. Due to environmental degradation, climate change and eco-system imbalance environmental consciousness and climate concern are the spotlighting issues in the world. This paper tracks the issues of environmental crisis and its alarming declension narratives about species loss, catastrophe of tide and ebb, global warming in select novel. Almost all organisms now exist in an environment drastically changed by humans. Due to environmental destruction, increased technology and irregular geographical conditions the landscapes of Sundarban got changed. Consequently, the natural species and human beings of this particular region are in jeopardy today. As a result, the cultivation of life is in ruins. Amitav Ghosh is portraying these challenges and issues in his novels. Almost all of his novels are dealing with the sense of consciousness about global warming and climate change. This novel discusses about the eco-system and ecological community of Sunderban delta that is located in the Bay of Bengal. This paper highlights the human-nature relationships in the climate change era. The article concludes that how the environmental narratives and fictionalization of environmental issues, contribute in the discussions of environmental consciousness, ecological awareness in the selected novel .