Certainly, there are only a few novels in the history of Indian English literature that can be read ecocritically. Indeed, previous works seem to lack a serious interest in ecological balance, although nature has been used as an important backdrop against which the stories of these novels develop. The novella title of Anita Desai's latest book, a trio of linked novellas titled The Disappearing Artist published in 2011, is one of the few literary works in which there is a concern with the natural exhaustion that is occurring in the India today. My commitment in this article is to study this short story through the lens of ecocriticism. Let us now analyze the term ecocriticism and then reread the story from an ecocritical perspective. As a distinctive critical approach to literature, ecocriticism was not inaugurated until the late 1980s in the United States. "Green studies" is an alternative term for ecocriticism in the United Kingdom, where this new approach to literature began in the early 1990s. It is pertinent to point out here that although ecocriticism as a separate discipline emerged in the 1990s, it is a fact that the relationship between man and his physical environment has always been intriguing to literary critics. This interest can be explained in two ways. 1. In the last decade of the 20th century, man was able to realize that the biggest problem of the 21st century will be the survival of the Earth with all its living and non-living beings. 2. It is within a certain physical environment that man always exists and there cannot be "is" without "where", as Lawrence Buell stated. In fact, man feels threatened in an ecologically degraded world. The last decade of the 20th century clearly demonstrated that man should do something to help the earth survive. Ecocriticism......middle of paper......a Road, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110 006, 2001.6. Egan, Gabriel Green Shakespeare: from ecopolitics to ecocriticism Accent on Shakespeare, London, Routledge, 2006.7. Egan, Gabriel “Shakespeare and ecocriticism: the unexpected return of the Elizabethan world, Picture” Literature Compass vol. 1 Internet http://www.literature-compass.com2004.8. Estok, Simon C. “Shakespeare and Ecocriticism: An Analysis of 'Home' and 'Power' in King Lear” AUMLA 103, May 2005.9. Glotfelty, Cheryll and Fromm, Harold The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in LiteraryEcology, University of Georgia Press, 1996.10. Hopkins, GM “Inversnaid”, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Ed. by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, 1918.11. Rueckert, William “Literature and ecology: an experiment in ecocriticism” IOWAReview 9.1, 1978.