• Shalini Singh

Eco is a prefix, with its combination various words are formed. Like ecology, eco -feminism, eco-tourism, eco hero, ecosystem, eco type, eco blink, eco anxiety etc. Here this paper is concerned with ecological concerns only. Centrism means pointedness or being focused on one point avoiding other points. Ecocentrism thus means being concerned about the environment, nature, its biotic and abiotic components. Literature is a work of art. It is a writing in the form of poetry, drama, novel with artistic fervour. Literature expresses its society in the form of sociological literature. When expresses about someone’s life is biographical literature, if it is teaching moral value, it is ethical literature, the same way when the writing is written with the focus on female characters is known as feminine literature. Just the same way the literature with its focus points on nature, it’s flora and fauna, its whole ecology, such work of art is defined as ecocentric literature. Eco centric literature spreads the whole story with the center point as the human and nature relationship. Sometime talking purely about nature and its five elements as earth water fire sky and air, climate, weather conditions, landscape, scene and sceneries natural beauty, natural disaster, it’s cause etc. ecocentrism is an umbrella term in which biocentrism, zoo centrism are also counted. It is a theory in opposition of anthropocentrism. Notable eco centric writers in English literature are William Turner, John Ray, William Durham, American ornithologist Charles Darwin, Susan Fennimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Corbett, Rudyard Kipling and Ruskin Bond etc. In India Ruskin Bond is a famous name. Children are mostly introduced to nature with his writings. Sunrise, sunset, lush green forest, butterfly, tiger, pinewoods, oak and deodar trees, streams, rivers, sea, ocean, goldfish, cat, dog, nuts and fruits, fireflies and fox all have found characters in the writing of Ruskin Bond. Ruskin bond’s writing not only describe the nature creatures but his writing is full with different shades and colours of nature, deep concern about conservation, less disturbance and due respect to Nature. Nature conservation is the burning point of discussion today. Literature as always provides a great scope for awareness. This is apparent in the writing of Ruskin Bond too. His writing shows the pros and cons of one’s being with nature and ones being without nature. In Ruskin Bond nature centric writing tiny to giant creatures all have provided stories. It shows how nature is full of exposure an opportunity. It has not only human relations to be disclosed but lots more to be talked, sung, observed and felt. The present paper looks at the eco centric approach in the selected short stories of Ruskin Bond. And how nature has played a vibrant part, presented in his work.

ecocentric, nature, scope, opportunity, conservation

"ECOCENTRIC APPROACH IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF RUSKIN BOND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.c625-c629, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406279.pdf

"ECOCENTRIC APPROACH IN THE SELECTED WORKS OF RUSKIN BOND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. ppc625-c629, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406279.pdf