Nurturing Environmental Trepidations: Exploring Climate Awareness and Childhood Innocence in Bijal Vacchrajanai’s Saavi: The Memory Keeper

Abstract

            Cli-fi bestirs as a emanating genre on the grounds of disparate and coercive environmental repercussions. The writers emulated an idiosyncratic perspective on the sweeping ecological and climate crisis with an amalgamation of our country's rich cultural heritage and coeval eco-friendly problems. Traditional narratives are intertwined with futuristic scenarios aiming to emphasize the lurking danger behind deforestation. Water scarcity, Rising sea levels, and Melting of polar ice caps and glaciers were the ancillary eventualities due to the hasty obliteration of trees and forests. In this context, juvenile fiction has the restraint to foster ecological anxieties and cognizance among the readers. The article aims to explore how Bijal Vacchrajanai, in her novel Saavi: The Memory Keeper, makes use of imaginative storytelling to pinnacle the increasingly erratic weather patterns. It also highlights the unprecedented climate upheaval that Mother Earth is going to face in the distant future. The paper focuses on the potency of environmental knowledge and climate advertency among the young generations.