![]() Amitav Ghosh in his work The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, wonders if the present generation is deranged! He warns readers that “this era, which so congratulates itself on its self-awareness, will come to be known as the time of the Great Derangement” (Ghosh 11). Postcolonial writers like Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Sudeep Sen have adopted an eco-critical sleight of hand to spark eco-critical awareness to the world at large. It’s unsettling to think that we are now on the verge of destroying ourselves and the planet because of our own efforts to make the world a comfortable place … there are massacres, world wars, genocides, floods, famines, plagues … We’ll have to change – our ideas, our attitudes, our very make-up. Will we write ourselves off as a failed society who let climate change lead us to a well-merited oblivion? ![]() She muses on how we will be perceived by our future generations. N her preface to Dangerous Pursuits, Suniti Namjoshi warns readers that our reckless pursuit and addictive use of fossil fuels is a ‘dangerous’ one. ![]()
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