• Dr.Sumer Singh
• Dr. Anju Khichar

Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi): A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Dr. Sumer Singh, Associate Professor of English, Govt. Lohia College, Churu & Dr. Anju Khichar, Assistant Professor of Geography (Guest Faculty), MBM Govt. Girls College, Sujangarh Abstract Nature has been, always, a continuous source of motivation for the writers since long past. A great deal of creative writings has been resulted having climate change, environment destruction, depletion of natural sources and ecological imbalance as the focal point in them. Still much more to be done through the creative writing by dealing primarily with the challenges caused by the climate change, ecological imbalance, the fast and irrational exploitation of natural resources and rapidly vanishing biodiversity. Even till today, so many writers and novelists are not much concerned about the global warming and its impact on life in contemporary world scenario possibly due to their half-heartedness regarding the pressing environmental issues i.e. the storms, thunders, cyclones, tornadoes, floods, drought and so on since they don’t make a considerable platform for the serious efforts. The stories of these natural disasters do not find a right place in their writings and consequently rendered to another category such as a fantasy fiction, rather the periphery of the ‘literary novel’. But Climate fiction (Cli-Fi) emerged as an important literary phenomenon today, addressing profound and complex issues in a range of realist and non-realist forms, and going far beyond the genres of popular reading with which it started. To put it another way, where climate fiction addresses the issues of climate change, having the prospects to cope with the Anthropogenic issues i.e. sensitive, moral and empirical concerns. Amitav Ghosh, being a sensitive climate change activist and a renowned author of global environmental issues and biodiversity has addressed seriously the imminent climate dangers in his literary works. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) is an ample evidence of those concerns. This complete non-fictional work is seriously bothered about climate change along with, the startling upshots of the changing weather patterns of the world and having a penetrating scan of the constraints of history, politics, and literature to grab the magnitude of this climate change and its disastrous effect. Basically, the issue of deterioration and devastation of the environment and the condition of India in the world scenario have undertaken as the crux in the fictions of Amitav Gosh. The climate fiction prominently deals with the network between economical disparity, ecological devastation and environment crisis at large. The present research paper aims to strengthen the urgency of encompassing the global issue of climate change and its impact in the circumference of our literary and philosophical discourse and to re-think our cultural and environmental policies and as well as our instructive engagement here and now by discussing in detail the non- fictional work of Amitav Ghosh entitled The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) as a climate fiction. Key Words: Climate Change, Climate fiction, Anthropocene, economic imbalance, disastrous effect, environment devastation.

Key Words: Climate Change, Climate fiction, Anthropocene, economic imbalance, disastrous effect, environment devastation.

"Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi): A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 5, page no.k139-k145, May-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2505B06.pdf

"Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi): A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 5, page no. ppk139-k145, May-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2505B06.pdf