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In the words of Cheryll Glotfelty ecocriticism is a critical approach that describes and analyses the relationship between literature and the physical environment around us.Today academicians respond to environmental crisis by giving it a new direction toward interpretating literary ecology and investigating the relationship between nature and culture. Ecocritics help in addressing environmental issues by examining literary texts through the embedded values of ecological implication and understanding man's position in the ecological environment. Ecocriticism rejects the idea of constructing everything from social or linguistic point of view. They think nature originally exists beyond ourselves and it doesn't fit within any concept or idea. The representation of this entity can't be done through any cultural practice ant it can really affect us ceverely if we misuse it. Earlier the concept of ' wilderness' was seen as a space of anthropocentric benefit but now ecocritics have announced the extinction of wilderness because every part of the planet is affected by anthropocentric problems and global warming. This paper will focus on how Amitav Ghosh's novel Gun Islannd indicates towards colonialism and capitalism leading its way to environmental degradation and migration culture that clearly demolishes the balance between nature and culture. He has taken the help of Indian folklore called Banduki Sadagar,or ' Gun Merchant' to connect the past and present. As the merchant ran away to travel the various oceans and lands from the persecution of Manasa Devi, not only animals but also people were forced to migrate to different places as a result of climate change and pervasive capitalism in today's world. Similarly through the novel 'The Nutmeg's Curse' the paper explores how European colonizers created the massacre for plantation of nutmegs and trading it all over the world in Band islands. In that process they not only decimated the native people but also the relationship between nature and culture through demolishing the indigenous understanding between human and earth. When it proved to be unprofitable they even tried to destroy the trees and leaving the environment in crisis for future generation. Only human beings can restore the balance between nature and culture by creating a familiar bond of universal brotherhood with love and kindness within themselves and respecting or valuing nature on the other.