His works may be categorized into two part Fiction and Non-fiction. His contribution in Indian English Literature is remarkable.

Indian government has awarded him awarded him Padam Shri in 2007. Thereafter, he worked as a faculty in college and university. Firstly he worked in Indian Express newspaper in Delhi. Ghosh won the In laks foundation Scholarship for D.Phil. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and Delhi School of Economics. After schooling, he completed his further education from St. He completed his schooling from the Doon School in Dehradun. He was born on 11july, 1956 in Kolkata and grew up in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Rig-VedaĪmitav Ghosh is one of the greatest novelists of Indian English Literature of modern times. “If you want to taste the real meaning of life for hundreds and thousands of years, then enjoy afforestation”. Keywords: Afforestation, Ecology, Eco-criticism, Ecocritical, Refugees. The goal of my paper is to attempt an ecological analysis and the eco-critical reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. In this novel the physical environment is a representation of an active force that connects the plant, animal and human life together and one is affected by the other directly or it indirectly.

Environmentalism and Destabilisation are some of the predominant themes in the novel. His novel The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans meaning “Beautiful forest” which comprises of more than ten thousand square kilometers, the tide country- narrates the history of the forced evaluation of refugees from the island of Morichjhapi. Now, literary writers focus upon the major environmental issues in their writing to highlight the problems of ecosystem. This relationship throws light upon the study of ecology and eco-critical reading. In recent times, literary writers have been drawn to the hitherto ignored strong interactive relationship between humans and nature.

The hungry tide