Humanness Across Borders in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels the Hungry Tide and the Glass Palace

Abstract

The Hungry Tide is set in the Sunderbans, an immense archipelago in the Ganges delta. Piya is an upper class woman. She was born in Calcutta, but she had moved to the United States of America. She is currently on a trip to study marine mammals which are found exclusively in the Sunderbans. She is affected by Fokirs death. She collected the money to buy them a house of their lower class people to help him. Uma Dey is a protagonist in the novel The Glass Palace. She becomes a freedom fighter. She was awakened from these years of relative slumber, she becomes a revolutionary. In the two novels a trust is created when a person gives property to another person to hold for the benefit of a third person. A trust is a legal way to hold and protect your assets for the future.