Abstract
This study has investigated how Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winner debut novel The White Tiger (2008) has protested against the popular image of a shiny India. This inquiry is important because it has identified how the politicians have deceived the people of India by creating a false sense of development and advancement. The focus of this study is to demonstrate Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a socio-political critic of modern India. It has contributed in interpreting the life and culture of the people both in rural and urban India through analyzing some of the most powerful metaphors of the text. The paper has identified a number of ways how the rich has been exploiting the poor over centuries and how the basic needs of the poor have been ignored by the politicians in power. It is hoped from the current study that the writers, journalists, columnist and literary critics will raise the issues of the socio-politically suppressed people to bring justice to them.
Highlights
This study has investigated how Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize winner debut novel The White Tiger (2008) has protested against the popular image of a shiny India
The focus of this study is to demonstrate Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a socio-political critic of modern India
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) contests the image of an emergent and shining India and makes the world rethink about their perception
Summary
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) contests the image of an emergent and shining India and makes the world rethink about their perception. Since most of the representations of India “in films and books coming out of India” carry the stories of the economic, political and technological boom, the lives of the underclass are “invisible” (DiMartino, 2014). Against this backdrop of representations, Aravind Adiga (2008) took a bold step in narrating the stories of the unprivileged people who live in “an India of Darkness” The fruit of India’s freedom has been consumed by the tiny minority and the other “99.9 percent” (Adiga, 2008, p. 103) of the population has been relentlessly exploited
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