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Yann Martel’s Life of Pi develops the bond between human and non-human environment. While Ecocriticism deals with the relationship between language and the environment, Biocentrism treats all the beings of the universe equally. Life of Pi helps the reader to understand the relationship between two different beings in the universe and also analyse the relation between literature and the nature. The novel can be interpreted in two ways. Firstly biocentrism, when the story takes its course with the involvement of animals and humans in all three sections in zoo, in ocean and in Mexico where Japanese officials cannot find it true to believe in animal story but they readily accept human story (anthropocentrism). While the second manner of approaching the novel is through eco-centrism. This concept has been brought into force while giving the descriptions of certain places like France and Munnar, in the novel.