Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide: An Ecocritical Analysis: From Ego to Eco

A literary work that represents life in all of its aspects is defined as such by most definitions. A relatively new concept termed ecocriticism has been used more recently to characterise the interaction between humans and their physical environment. The emphasis of ecocriticism is on the natural world rather than on people. But modern man, pushed by the demands of the capitalist market, utilises modern life and technology to ruin the natural world. In the tidal region of the Sundarbans, Amitav Ghosh talks about nature, people, and environmental issues in addition to climate change in his book The Hungry Tide. Ghosh interweaves two narratives: the first is given through Nirmal’s journal and recounts the events of the Morichjhapi incident; the second is disclosed through Piya’s travels and describes the present situation of the people together with the flora and fauna of the Sundarbans.