The Portraiture of Ecological Consciousness and Ecological Empathy in The legends Of Pensam and Escaping the Land – A Voice of Mamang Dai

Literature is a world where readers can receive different kinds of experiences and perspectives and it always connects the nature with all living beings. Without the songs of nature, literature cannot exist. A vital tool which cannot be separated from the life of human beings is literature. Mamang Dai, a celebrated poet, novelist and journalist from Arunachala Pradesh portrays her views as “Is the Earth growing old” in her poem Hello Mountain. Her birth in Adi Community supplies the ideas for her writings. Her writings are rich in depicting the ecological consciousness and advocating the readers in preserving the nature. She always finds a way to create awareness among the readers through her pen. Mamang Dai could not digest the exploitation of world in the name of civilization and modernization. She has a special vision in viewing the interconnectedness of humans with nature. Her writings has a deep belief that everything has a life. This paper is an attempt to bring out the ecological consciousness which is abundant in the works of Mamang Dai The Legends of Pensam and Escaping the Land

Ecological Empathy, Ecology

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