Development versus Nature: Reading RK Narayan'sThe Axe as an Ecocritical Discourse

<p><span>From an ecocritical perspective, the present research piece is a critique of R.K. Narayan's short story "The<br>Axe." This essay looks at how R.K. Narayan conveys his fervent love for nature and his suffering for the<br>environment and how nature is being destroyed in the name of progress and modernisation. It also says<br>Velan, the protagonist of the narrative, spends his entire childhood growing up among wilderness and<br>plants and trees are his children, and he treats them as such. The purpose of this article is to show how<br>man is separating himself from nature under the guise of development and progress.</span> </p>