Amitav Ghosh is a renowned Indo-Anglian author who has won many laurels worldwide. He is arguably one of the few noted authors who have incorporated the theme of climate change and destruction of nature at the hands of humans in his novels and non-fiction works. Though he himself admits the fact that climate change receives little attention in the arena of literary fiction. In this context, his two books are worth mentioning here, namely The Great Derangement-Climate Change and the Unthinkable, and The Nutmeg’s Curse. He structures his first book into three parts: ‘Stories’, ‘History’, and ‘Politics’. In the Stories’ part, Ghosh focuses on the role of literature, particularly fiction, in relation to climate change. Ghosh supports the view of other experts that capitalism is the major cause of climate change.   Thus, The Great Derangement provides a much deeper understanding of the historic origins and current causes of climate change, together with possible avenues to address it.
     His other book, The Nutmeg’s Curse-Parables for A Planet In Crisis, is a work of fiction in which he has stated that before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around a group of small volcanic islands east of Java, known as the Banda Islands. It was not long before European traders became conquerors. Ghosh argues that the nutmeg’s violent trajectory from its native islands is revealing of a wider colonial mindset which justifies the exploitation of human life and the natural environment. This paper attempts to explore the varied nuances of these two seminal works of Amitav Ghosh and its probable impact on society’s worn-out thinking process.