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NATURE AND WOMEN: ECOFEMINIST READING OF "THE COURTESAN'S STORY" IN GITA MEHTA'S A RIVER SUTRA

In the days to come, humanity is going to experience global environmental crisis. The decisions and behaviours of ecologically alienated individuals have led to environmental degradation in today’s world. Human beings lost connection with nature and grew insensitive. Can the lost association with nature be re-discovered? The answer is in the affirmative. Since humanity and nature are inseparable, understanding that human well-being is possible only when we live in harmony with the natural world is vital for this. When ecologically affective and respectful consciousness or ecological consciousness is infused in everyone, it can improve the environmental behaviour of the individuals to meet the challenges posed by a global environmental crisis. A lot of ecofeminists took up the mantle of environmental protection because they saw how its degradation was so closely linked to their own. For ecofeminists, there seems to be a connection between unoppressed women and unabused nature. The paper attempts to study how ecological feminism permeates through “The Courtesan’s Story” in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra. Although the present culture has formed a conceptual association between women and nature, the need of the hour is to adopt a new attitude towards nature - one that interconnects nature with humans and not just nature with women. Let an ethic of care for nature be developed in one and all.