ABSTRACT
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) is an attempt to gauge the worst effects of Bhopal gas tragedy on human beings and nature through a dystopia, Khaufpur. Sinha narrates the novel in a very unique way. Animal is a name of the teenager boy in the novel. The impact of the disaster bends him at the bottom of his spine, which forces him to walk on all fours just like an animal. This identity is the gift of the industrial disaster. He is an orphan and brought up by a French nun Ma Franci. This novel is a saga of the pathetic condition of the boy and his life, which represents thousands of Bhopal youngsters’ lives. Further, it is an account of the sufferings of the survivors of the impact of the industrial disaster. On parallel lines, Sinha shows the impact of the disaster on a lake, animals, water sources and nature. The narration of the novel is through the central character – Animal. He recounts the story to a tape recorder for his journalist friend who is going to publish that recording as a book. Each vignette is named tape number one, two and so on.
