Non-human as Hero in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

The present paper offers readers an immersive canvas to reflect on ecocriticismand various political epistemologies. It also focuses on the perspectives on nonhumans as an essential part of nature. In his novel The Hungry Tide, AmitavGhosh, a master storyteller, explores the Sundarbans’ environmental challengeson a large scale, relying on various sources of factual information. It unites theart of nature writing with fiction, illustrating the conflict between humans andnon-humans, both essential parts of nature. Ghosh engages in the rhetorics ofstorytelling, weaving fiction and fact, and using the pretext of nature and itsecosystem. The paper also explores non-human, people, and environmentalconcerns in the tidal area of the Sundarbans.The Sundarbans, their peoples, habitats, tigers, and dolphins, natural andartificial calamities that represent the entire ecological system of thearchipelago rich in its biodiversity and life forms unique in the entire world havebeen harmoniously reintegrated. It also shows how non-humans are beingaffected by human activities due to the lack of awareness.