Non-human as Hero in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

The present paper offers readers an immersive canvas to reflect on ecocriticism and various political epistemologies. It also focuses on the perspectives on nonhumans as an essential part of nature. In his novel The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh, a master storyteller, explores the Sundarbans’ environmental challenges on a large scale, relying on various sources of factual information. It unites the art of nature writing with fiction, illustrating the conflict between humans and non-humans, both essential parts of nature. Ghosh engages in the rhetorics of storytelling, weaving fiction and fact, and using the pretext of nature and its ecosystem. The paper also explores non-human, people, and environmental concerns in the tidal area of the Sundarbans. The Sundarbans, their peoples, habitats, tigers, and dolphins, natural and artificial calamities that represent the entire ecological system of the archipelago rich in its biodiversity and life forms unique in the entire world have been harmoniously reintegrated. It also shows how non-humans are being affected by human activities due to the lack of awareness.