Caring For The Indigenous, Challenging Materialism: Embracing The Ecological Sacred In Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable For Our Times

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh’s work consistently brings up issues about the environmental problem in these aftermath epidemic days. His most recent work, The Living Mountain, suggests the horrifying truth of the ecosystem’s total collapse, which is being gradually destroyed by humanity. Ghosh conveys his grave concerns about the widespread signs of environmental degradation in a brief story. He alerts humanity to the excessive and illogical exploitation of natural resources through his perceptive story, which employs references. In light of this indigenous fable, Ghosh questions the legitimacy of European meta-discourses of modernity and globalization. He suggests that the colonialist binaries are still important in various ways and need to be addressed endlessly in order to understand the native belief system and the ecological sacred, which supports the eco-system and nurtures human life. The native lives are hurriedly destroyed by the materialist and commercial mind systems. This article aims to prove that the ecological sacred has the ability to resist hegemonic and capitalist transgression by examining both the protective and destructive qualities of nature in Ghosh's tale The Living Mountain.