• Dr.K.Yesodha Devi

ABSTRACT Amitav Ghosh has expressed environment and animal in his novel the hungry tide. This paper is an attempt to illustrate how Ghosh has used the nature and its hunger. To show the post colonial world and its hunger in making the people colonised and in the literal sense how the people are prayed for the tide which appears without any symptoms. Amitav Ghosh one of the foremost Indian English writer his work in tune with the global changes, multicultural environs and cosmopolitanism. But at the same time he has not failed to portray darker side of the real Indian in his novel , his novel the hungry tide tell the sad tale of the agonies of the low class refugees and the harsh reality of the life of the sundarbans islanders regarding hunger (or)thirst of the sea . The hungry tide disguises between two hungers the hunger of the rich and the hunger of the poor

Keywords-postcolonial, multicultural environment, cosmopolitanism refugees.

"Nature as a threat;nature as a refuge with special reference to Amitav Ghosh's "THE HUNGRY TIDE"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.190-193, November-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N65.pdf

"Nature as a threat;nature as a refuge with special reference to Amitav Ghosh's "THE HUNGRY TIDE"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp190-193, November-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N65.pdf