This research paper indulges in the exploration of Sustainable development goals in relation to Indian literature. Sustainable development goals, in recent days, has become the cynosure of qualitative research. Sustainable development goals substantially concentrate on global challenges such as environmental issues, destitution, inequality, and justice. Though sustainable development goals are extensively associated with Business Economics, Commerce, and MBA programs, it is a multidisciplinary approach, and has become an inexorable pivot in academic literature. It has become the burgeoning goal of the entire human race. In this paper, the prime focus is on the stifled environment, stagnating seas, and global solidarity. Preservation of environment, conservation of natural resources, and a healthy and relishing environment altogether aligns with sustainability. In this paper, an attempt is made to analyze how sustainable development, and the peril of environmental issues intersects with the Indian novel Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh. The paramount focus of the paper is on the environmental sustainability in the select novel. The novel intertwines climate change, migration, and jeopardized environmental dilapidation. It explores the convergence of global calamity and parochial experiences. The novel weaves in the gravity of sustainable development goals, unequivocally the climate change, life under water, and truncated inequalities. The novel accentuates the interconnectedness of people and the biosphere. The paper focalizes on how the novel evince the human’s turbulence in adapting to the changing environment, and the need for a discreet sustainable future.