The White Tigers, Arvind Adiga
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