The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga
Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger is the story of a man named
Balram Halwai and his journey of redemption from regression and suppression.
The writer paints a sardonic and dark picture of India. He ingeniously brings
out the truth behind his representation of the nation. Adiga views India as
being infested with servitude and swath, where a man born in a poor family finds his chances of progress
being limited and conditions prevailing in India are such that propel the self
of an economically deprived individual to justify a crime like murder and
become legal as well as social criminal. Adiga has raised many issues in his
work and it is a fact beyond contestation that India is being confronted by
most of the issues put forth by him. But what conclude his work as an
unacceptable representation of India is that he has increased the magnitude of
the problems manifold, so that they seems to be the dominant factor in Indian
society. It can’t be argued that his work is devoid of reality, but it is
indeed the exaggeration of reality, which makes his work liable to criticise
and splenetic reaction.
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