The Voice of the Ghat: An Ecocritical Reading of The Ghat’s Story by Rabindranath Tagore

Author(s)	Noirrita Priyadarshini
Country	India
Abstract	Authors, poets, and artists, since the beginning of time have taken inspiration from the non-human organic elements to create something new. This very relationship between nature and man is explored through the concept of ecocriticism. More recent ecocritical scholarship has led to include several other related concerns such as sustainability, postcolonial ecologies, and environmental justice. In the literary corpus of Rabindranath Tagore, the ecological sensitivity of the author is reflected. While most of such evaluation predominantly focused on Gitanjali and other canonical poetic works, this paper seeks to analyze his short fiction, “The Ghat’s Story” (Ghāter Kathā) that embodies the ecological sensibilities within everyday rural life and foregrounds the river Ganga not merely as a sacred symbol, but as a living being that shapes memory, identity, and ethical meaning.
Keywords	Ecocriticism, human, Ganga, nature
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-13

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