The Mountain from Reverence to Ruin: Cli-Fi Narrative of Amitav Gosh's The Living Mountain

Abstract

Environmental degradation and the result of human haughtiness in the face of nature have become the most important issues in the contemporary era. The Earth is facing an expansion of ecological catastrophe from rising sea levels, melting glaciers, extreme weather changes because of deforestation. Humans greed, exploitation, industrialization are endangering not only the environment but also the future of mankind. This reality has deeply influenced contemporary literature and the writers across the world are using poems, fiction and essays as a tool to reflect destruction relation between humans and nature. Literature has become a powerful tool through which the writers can critique human supremacy over nature, domination of technology and raise the voice for nature. In many literature works, nature has become a predominant theme. Tales like Amithav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain describes not only about the environmental crisis but also highlights the cautioning about ignorance of ecological knowledge. Amitav Ghosh an Indian writer whose novels features the connection of human lives and the environment. His writings go beyond the narration to involve deeply with realities of environmental crisis, climatic changes and human relationship with nature.