ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSE IN 21STCENTURY HINDI LITERATURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE FOR RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

The 21st century, marked by the palpable realities of the Anthropocene, has witnessed a significant and urgent shift in the ecological discourse within Hindi literature. Moving beyond romanticized depictions of nature or symbolic protests, contemporary literature has begun to engage directly with the complex, interconnected crises of climate change, resource extraction, species extinction, and environmental injustice. This paper argues that 21st-century Hindi literature serves as a critical cultural forum, fostering an essential interdisciplinary dialogue that bridges the gap between scientific data and human experience to model pathways for resilience and sustainability.Through an analysis of a diverse corpus-including novels of environmental realism, dystopian narratives, and non-fictional eco-writing-this study examines how authors and poets like Nasira Sharma, Mahua Maji, Sanjiv, Anant Kumar Singh, Akhilesh, Jayanandan, Naresh Saxena, Kumar Ambuj, Rajni Tilak etc., respectively, have reframed the ecological debate. Their work does not merely depict environmental degradation but critically interrogate its root causes: neoliberal development, urban-rural divides, gendered impacts of ecological loss, and the erosion of indigenous knowledge systems.Through a close reading of selected novels, short stories, and poetries, this research demonstrates how literature articulates the lived experiences of ecological degradation, giving a human face to abstract environmental data.