India’s Northeast being a biodiversity ho tspot has been famous for its natural glory from time immemorial. But the colonial regime distorted its glory . As such during both the colonial and postcolonial times there have been several forms of resistance to the colonial forces to safeguard the erosi on of the biodiversity and such resistance has been reflected in the literatures of the region. Nature has a significant place in Indian traditional values. It has been worshipped and revered since time immemorial. Basic Indian ethos propagates the idea th at human beings and nature share a bond of mutual understanding, respect and inter -dependence. The Indian scriptures speak of preservation of environment and thus to maintain the ecological balance. Then the British came and the age - old values regarding na ture and its sanctity were shaken of which the coloni sed people had to be mute spectators. They were the ‘other’ compelled to live in the periphery and whose voice was obviously unheard. They began to suffer due to the ecological imbalance. Population grow th, environmental pollution and resource depletion have started to pose great threats. Postcolonial ecological writing in English from India ’s Northeast constitutes an important discourse. Many of the writers deal with the issues how nature was destroyed, how traditional values became dilapidated, how ecology of this pristine region was degenerated during the colonial period. This corpus of writing having serious ecological concerns, can be seen as essentially a postcolonial discourse. It presents a critiqu e of the colonial perspective of, and the colonial attitude towards, the environment. This body of ecological writing can be said canonical because of its strong Page 26  Labyrinth: ISSN 0976-0814 (Vol.10 - No.3, January 2019) consciousness and deliberate efforts to undo ecological imbalance and propagate ecological preservation in writing