First, cosmopolitanism disregards the suffering of the subalterns. In The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh reveals problems of people controlled by two ferocious beasts of globalization: cosmopolitanism and consumerism. Lessons from religious and cultural traditions of Sundarbans – valuing of human dignity and the natural life – can still be viable for modern capitalistic society.įacing Globalization in The Hungry Tide: The Problem of Modern Capitalist Society I aruge that in The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh shows that peaceful coexistence is possible between humans and between humans and nature, though consumerism and cosmopolitanism not only degraded human beings but also separated them from fellow human beings and nature. This article aims to demonstrate how other indigenous cultural and religious traditions in The Hungry Tide offer resources for imagining different ways of life in the globalized world. In this novel, cultural and religious traditions of Sundarbans provide alternative ways of life in the globalized world. In Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, however, we see a different picture of the world whose way of life and thinking is quite different from that of the West.

It is natural to expect that the world is becoming more homogeneous. Now, the majority of the global population wears westernized clothes and makes use of its technology, such as cellphones. “Against the Waves of Globalization” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideĪfter the era of colonization, globalization became a powerful driving force implementing the West’s rationalistic and capitalist way of life in the third world countries.

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