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Nature and Literature have always shared an intimate bond as is apparent in the works of all poets and authors down the eras. Currently, this inseparable association between the natural and social world is being accentuated and interpreted in all fields of knowledge and growth. At present, environmental degradation has arisen as a major global concern for humankind. Jnanpith award winner Amitabh Ghosh in his novel The Hungry Tide writes about nature, people and environmental problems along with the climate change in the tidal area of the Sundarbans. That's why I have selected The Hungry Tide as my case study to explore the bond between man and nature. In this paper, I propose to address this conflict of rights and find a way to settle the issue of preference, focusing on the very pertinent question raised by Fokir who is the outsider in the ecosystem of the tidal land, and how much more responsible the "native" fishermen are for destroying the natural ecosystem than the forces of industrialization, urbanization, and forms of government and self-government interference.