ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE NOVELS OF MANOJ DAS AND RUSKIN BOND- A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

Environment and society are inter- 
connected since the beginning of human 
civilization. The more we take care of our 
natural surroundings, the better life we can 
have. From time immemorial poets and 
writers from India and other countries of 
the world have glorified natural world as 
well as human-nature relationship. But 
modern generation and their developments 
have probably changed the way, which 
results in a lot of destruction to our 
environment. Literary figures like William 
Wordsworth, John Keats, P B Shelley, Anita 
Sethi, Nancy Newhall, Henry David 
Thoreau and many more have described 
natural world, but in Indian context the 
place Manoj Das and Ruskin Bond have 
acquired is beyond all. My present paper 
aims at highlighting the environmental 
concern of these two authors with regard to 
their short stories. Here I have studied Das’s 
novel Cyclones and Bond’s The Room on 
the Roof. 

 Eco-criticism, nature, flora and 
fauna, concern, environment.