STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL OF REFUGEES IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE”

Abstract

Struggle means the competition in nature among organism of a population to maintain themselves in a given environment and to survive to reproduce others of their kind.

 The concept of the struggle for existence concerns the competition or battle for resources needed to live. It can refer to human society, or to organism in nature.

Amitav Ghosh, born in 1956, is an Indian fictionist and winner of the Janapith award. Highly educated in social anthropology, he stands with expose to multinational demographic atmosphere with his experiences. He was a journalist first and started teaching comparative Literature in Queens College, affiliated to the University of New York. His famous novels are: The Circle of Reason (1986). The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide(2004), Sea of  Popppies(2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire(2015).