ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IN INDRA SINHA’S ANIMAL’S PEOPLE

Abstract

Nature has been an indispensable part of our lives. Technological and Industrial developments have long back created a false illusion of human progress without nature. The damage to nature has turned more evident in the present scenario. It has now become customary to come across news on such destructive activities of human beings as deforestation, excessive use of fossil fuels, the topic of environmental pollution particularly global warming, and large – scale environmental catastrophes such as the Chernobyl catastrophe, Bhopal gas tragedy, prestige and Exxon Valdez oil spills. Such fatal disasters require a serious reconsideration of deformed relationship between human beings and their environments for the sake of the entire planet. Animal’s People is one of the realistic novels in the present times in which Indra Sinha portrays the spectacle of a man-made ecological crisis . This paper intends to look into irreversible impact of a deadly technological catastrophe upon the whole ecology purely triggered by human greed. It also illustrates how Sinha employs mythic anthropology to generate the idea of a strange and unnatural kind of nature also known as ‘ecological uncanny’ in the post catastrophic setting through the metaphor of a factory in Khaufpur. Particular emphasis is also given upon the adverse effects of the toxic chemicals as well as the altered environment on the human beings as well as other living organisms. Sinha portrays a kind of silent war being waged between mother nature and human beings.