Vikasit Bharat Vision 2047: A Concern of Environment Conservation in Amitav Ghosh's Novel The Hungry Tide

Abstract: Amitav Ghosh is well known contemporary fictional writer in Indian English. He has written many distinctive fictional works in English which necessarily focuses on some important issues of contemporary society. There is a development of new critical approach known as eco-criticism in literature. There lies a great literary and environmental interest in recent times. In the present century many writers have emerged to demonstrate the centrality of environmental concerns and their profound connection with literature from the eco-critical point of view. Amitav Ghosh as a fictional writer emphasizes on the relationship between nature and society which plays a prominent role in a country like India with ecosystems ranging from Himalayas in North to the Indian Ocean in South and from Sunderbans in the East to the dry Thar of the West. As the human culture is connected to the environment affecting it and also affected by it. The objective of the present paper is an attempt to analyze the novel of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide in the light of Vikasit Bharat Vision 2047.