An Ecocritical and Cultural Approach to Dhruv Bhatt’s Select Novels

Abstract

The scientific advancements and developments of the 21st century have been achieved at the expense of nature, and humans have lost harmony with it, putting themselves under threat to their own survival. Literature also explores these concerns and studies them through the theory of Ecocriticism that developed in the 1990s. The concept of Ecocritism is a global discourse. In literature, the authors like Margaret Atwood, the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, British-Turkish Elif Shafak, Indian Amitav Ghosh have meticulously raised the issue of the destruction of nature and the preservation of the same in their works. The human desire for controlling nature, gaining herculean powers, eternal strength and beauty etc. have created havoc, and therefore advocated nature and viewing the discourse of Ecocriticism from the non-Euro-Centric perspective is extremely needed. Writers like Ghosh and Bhatt have been talking about nature and Ecocriticism from the standpoint of the Global South.  Ecocriticism focuses on the analysis of the man-nature relationship and also studies its reflection in literature. Thus, the study pinpoints the novels of Dhruv Bhatt by centralizing the Ecocritical theory and establishing the connection between the modern-day society and nature, or nature and human relation.