Ecological Imbalance of Nature in English Novels ‘The Defiant Jungle’ & ‘When the Kurinji Blooms’

Abstract

The present research focuses on the annihilation of nature and environment a problem and threat to life on this earth. In this paper describes the greenocide and man’s cruelty to nature as reflected in the novel The Defiant Jungle, where the greedy protagonist cuts and burns down the forest ruthlessly in his ambition to build a sugarcane factory. The novel When the Kurinji blooms highlights deforestation and the problems of indigenous people. The prime cultivation of the flower Kurinji a flower that blooms once in twelve years is replaced by tea and coffee plantation with the onset of globalization.