Balance between Environment and Development in Mahasweta Devi’s Chotti Munda and His Arrow

This paper aims to explore the issue of development at the cost of environment through Mahashweta Devi' s novel Chotti Munda and His Arrow. Development with sustainability and balance is the imperative of today's globlised world which faces various threats from nature such as global warming, flash flood and earthquake etc. This paper studies the novel from the environmental perspective by delving deep into the lives of tribals their marginalised status under colonialism, the implementation of development project in tribal areas and the tribals with consciousness of nature preservation. Sustainability and ec ological habitat are considered as the much required vehicles to make oure future free from natural precarity. This paper will demonstrate how tribal community which inhabits a terrain far removed from metropolis has richly inherited ecological wisdom to import the world. Thus this paper will intend to infuse tribal insights which may enrich the environmental discourse.