Nature as Panacea for Female Voices

I wrote this paper on nature as panacea because during my dissertation I came across this novel The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay which was her debut novel published in 2019. Writers have mainly looked nature from ecological lens. But this novel portrays different visions for scholars to analyse nature with different perspectives. As a scholar, I looked it as Panacea for female characters in the novel. Nature has been portrayed as a metaphorical representation of character’s emotions. The paper examines how Himalayan Landscape becomes a sanctuary and mirror for Shalini, the protagonist whose personal grief propels Kashmir’s conflicted terrain. The study explores inner grief and nature operates as panacea for psychological fragmentation and moral confusion and heals by offering stillness, perspective, humanity, immersion, continuity in contrast to human chaos.