Picture of Indian Tragedies and Identity Crisis in Aravind Adiga's the White Tiger
Picture of Indian Tragedies and Identity Crisis
In Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
In an interview with BBC, after winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Adiga said that The White Tiger is the account of a poor man in today’s India, one of the many hundreds of millions who belong to the boundless Indian underclass. Truly said and brilliantly explained in this novel. But Adiga has not only presented one of these identity less millions of poor Indians but he has also pictured obscurity of India. The white tiger is cloudily hilarious and savagely virulent story. Adiga has won the circumspection of thousands of Indian readers primarily for its lifelike and existing picture of some of the major sagacious realities about India. Therefore the book as whole presents the coarse obscure and unclad facts about India.
Bribery, Corruption, Classism and an eye of hatred for the low class people – all these tragedies of Indian fate is well depicted and presented in this novel. “ The main theme of the novel is the contrast between India 's rise as a modern global economy and its working class people who live in crushing poverty”. (The Telegraph, 09 August 2008). We are acquainted with the poverty of rural areas and the catastrophe of feudal landlords. Everyone has to pay some amount of pennies to these landlords if they want to graze their cattle, grow anything, use the government roads and of course water, the most essential expedient. The author in a sharp voice presents the nauseous destiny and tenebrous visage of India through a series of letters addressed by an entrepreneur who is the protagonist of the novel itself. While unrolling his existence of enterprise and endeavor, he is mainly concerned with portraying a lifelike sketch of his village and metro cities, facing the harsh and rude side of it, overcoming it and rising from that position to new heights.
The India that Balram presents is not one of seasons, divinity and saris. The
In Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
In an interview with BBC, after winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Adiga said that The White Tiger is the account of a poor man in today’s India, one of the many hundreds of millions who belong to the boundless Indian underclass. Truly said and brilliantly explained in this novel. But Adiga has not only presented one of these identity less millions of poor Indians but he has also pictured obscurity of India. The white tiger is cloudily hilarious and savagely virulent story. Adiga has won the circumspection of thousands of Indian readers primarily for its lifelike and existing picture of some of the major sagacious realities about India. Therefore the book as whole presents the coarse obscure and unclad facts about India.
Bribery, Corruption, Classism and an eye of hatred for the low class people – all these tragedies of Indian fate is well depicted and presented in this novel. “ The main theme of the novel is the contrast between India 's rise as a modern global economy and its working class people who live in crushing poverty”. (The Telegraph, 09 August 2008). We are acquainted with the poverty of rural areas and the catastrophe of feudal landlords. Everyone has to pay some amount of pennies to these landlords if they want to graze their cattle, grow anything, use the government roads and of course water, the most essential expedient. The author in a sharp voice presents the nauseous destiny and tenebrous visage of India through a series of letters addressed by an entrepreneur who is the protagonist of the novel itself. While unrolling his existence of enterprise and endeavor, he is mainly concerned with portraying a lifelike sketch of his village and metro cities, facing the harsh and rude side of it, overcoming it and rising from that position to new heights.
The India that Balram presents is not one of seasons, divinity and saris. The
References: 1. Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger, New Delhi, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. 2. Interview with Aravind Adiga in Rediff.com 3. "Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga" The Telegraph. 09 August 2008.