The White Tigers, Arvind Adiga

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Arvind Adiga 
(1974 – ) 

  • Arvind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist.
  •  His debut novel The White Tiger won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
  • He was born in Madras (Chennai).
  •  He is the fourth Indian born author to win Booker Prize after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai ( V.S Naipaul is also of Indian origin but was not born in India).
  • Adiga’s second book Between the Assassinations (2008) features 12 interlinked short stories.
  •  His second novel and third book “Last Man in Tower” was published in UK in 2011.
Important Works 

1. The White Tigers (2008)
  •  The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. He is praised one day as a rare “white tiger” by a visiting School inspector”. 
  •  The novel depicts Balram’s killing his master in Delhi and flees to Bangalore. Ultimately he transcends his sweet maker caste and becomes a successful entrepreneur, establishing his own Taxi Service.
  • In this novel Balram believes that there are two Indians – “The Impoverished Darkness of the Rural inner continent” and the “Light of urban coastal India”.
2. Between the Assassinations (2008)

  •  This novel counts for the period between the assassination of India Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
3. Last Man in Tower (2011).

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