INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD

Abstract: Ecology is an inevitable part of every individual’s life. As ecology includes all the human as well as non-human living creatures, concern regarding everybody is most needed. The balance between living, non-living, human and non-human keeps our environment going and growing. Our ecology is associated with our everyday life. We breathe, eat, walk, communicate and everything else is a part of our eco-system. In fact, how we behave, deal or express different views and thoughts and concern for various living creatures, overall means our ecological consciousness. From time immemorial, all creatures along with humans have been co-existing together with utmost balance. Modern luxury and lavishness have wilted men’s consciousness and wit. They have forgotten the fundamental co-dependency between human-nature relationship and it is the reason behind destruction in this coming-of-age time. This view has drawn the focus of a number of writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Goldsmith, Robert Frost, Whitman and Indian writers like Amitabh Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Rudyard Kipling try to make humans realize the consequences of his drastic deeds. However, Ruskin Bond leads the list unquestionably. The present paper deals with different dimensions of eco-concern in the short stories of Bond. They show humans’ exploit over nature, beauty of nature as well as charity of natural world. Nature is always giving, despite of our wrong deeds towards it. Bond’s stories like “Bird Life in the City” and “The Leopard” from his anthology The Best of Ruskin Bond focus on the above themes.