The Interface between Environmental Hostility and Human Perversity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

Ecocriticism is popularly thought of as a unidirectional exercise for preserving nature in its pristine and uncontaminated form. This view grossly reductive because ecosystems are many, not one, local global. The natural green world always necessarily friendly to human aspirations. In fact, ‘green’ the colour falsehood, unreliability deception medieval English literature. colonial medical discourses also endorse this diversity world. these discourses, tropical European colonies described ‘diseased world’ contrast sanitized temperate west. Since boundary between humans environment porous, perverted environments hostile habitation. Bapsi Sidhwa’s Pakistani Bride documents interrelationship arid, bleak closed mountains Kohistan perversity isolated pockets feuding tribes that inhabited it. It foregrounds it impossible improve if we simply surrender uncontrollable forces abandon all efforts ameliorate our living conditions. is, therefore, essential realize ecocriticism merely concerned with protection external nature. an effort reframe interactions mastery but negotiation. If human-made changes have endangered life-supporting systems world, should instead, Rachel Carson urges, explore what alternatives available us.