"The White Tiger" by Arvind Adiga

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"The White Tiger" the debut novel by Indian author Arvind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th "The Man Booker Prize" in the same year. Adiga portrayed India as a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world. The whole novel told through a retrospective narration from " Balram Halwai". The major issues of this novel is religion, caste, politics of naming, class, loyalty, corruption abd poverty in India.

● How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel "The White Tiger".

Indeed, I'm strongly agree with this above question that Adiga represented India in the novel - " The White Tiger". According to Adiga, the crisis for ''The White Tiger" was to capture the unspoken voice of people from "the darkness".

In the beginning , the novel itself brings the strong note of sarcasm.

In the very beginning of the 1st chapter Balram Halwai says that.....

" I'm talking of a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fieldsvand wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those fields choked with lotuses and water lilies.

Those who live in this place call it "Darkness"."

"India is two countries in one; An india of Light, and an India of Darkness."

Through these above lines we can see that Adiga represented India in a very sarcasm way. He portrayed India in very different ways through different aspects. Which is given below....

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