ARAVIND ADIGA: THE WHITE TIGER

Aravind Adiga debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 coveted Man Booker Prize. Hailed as "compelling, angry and darkly humorous, "the novel depicts the existence of two countries in one: the India of Darkness and the India of light, a country of teeming billions living in utter poverty and the few rich at the top who mercilessly exploit them. Balram, the protagonist belongs to 99.9 percent of poor Indians, How he breaks out of what he calls the Great Indian Rooster coop forms the crux of the narrative. The present critical study analyses the travails of this white Tiger from one living in perpetual servitude to a successful entrepreneur. The text is throughly explored and the critical and textual problems arising therefrom are answered from the point of view examination for our university students. Shakti Batra has been Vice-principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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