IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Nutrition strategies specifically targeted for the pregnancy and postpartum periods are crucial for ensuring positive maternal and infant health outcomes.

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Sahiti Ponnekanti

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The paper titled “Unveiling Human-Nature Interaction in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” explores the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. This paper examines how the environment and human survival are often interconnected, but it also explores how the human actions can lead to conflict and destruction. Ecocritical works have a very powerful and lasting impact in the twenty first century. Environmental concerns are currently a prominent topic in contemporary literature. The Hungry Tide is a tale about the settlers and their relationship with the physical environment in the Sundarbans, a unique and fragile ecosystem. The setting of the novel is at the very heart of nature - The Sundarbans, the mangrove forest between the sea and the plains of Bengal. The ecological balance in this part of India, with a population comprising of the poorest of the poor, is seriously being threatened. Human life is impossible without the existence of nature. Nature is a bountiful mother as well as a hostile force for the inhabitants of the islands. The storms, tigers, crocodiles and snakes are the forms in which nature expresses its hostility to human beings. Nature comes out as hostile and antagonistic to human beings right at the outset of the novel. The extreme hostility of the terrain is evident in most of the details of its physical aspects. The gentler aspects of nature are represented by the river dolphin. This fictional work investigates the interconnectedness between man and nature. The protection and preservation of the environment is the need of the hour. This fictional work addresses the most relevant issues of the time with responsibility and conviction.

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