LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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A Critical Analysis of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger:
A Socio-Political Perspective

Prateek Deswal, M.A. (English)

Adiga's White Tiger

Abstract

Aravind 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 and this article is an endeavour to bring 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 the conditions prevailing in India are such that propel the self of an economically deprived individual to justify a crime like murder, and become a 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 concludes his work as an unacceptable representation of India is that he has increased the magnitude of the problems manifold, so that they seem to be the dominant factor in Indian society. It cannot be argued that his work is devoid of reality, but it is indeed the exaggeration of reality, which makes his work liable to criticism and splenetic reactions. My paper would critically examine and bring about clarity between Adiga’s India and the real India.

Key words: Aravind Adiga, White Tiger, Light, Darkness, Servitude, Defunct.

Indian Diversity and Indian Writing in English

The worst of times usually brings about the best in nations. And India throughout its glorious history, has encountered its fair share of adversities, whether they be in the form of invasions, slavery or famines and so on. Each part of history is unique, in its own way and the consciousness of the nation has always found an effective medium to express itself through the writers of the age. Same is the case with modern-day India in which the Chetan Bhagats, Vikram Seths, Amitav Ghoshs have become the voice of the nation. However, the new age writers of India will probably find the task more difficult than their predecessors, primarily because of India’s diversity and divisions existing in its social, economic and cultural areas. India one of the most diverse nations in the world is almost incomprehensible and cannot be limited within the realms of a single book. Its facets are just too many, to be amalgamated into one single work. That is why Chetan Bhagat has more or less focused on college students’ life, mainly that of engineering students in his novels. In the same manner, a far too dangerous endeavour was undertaken by Aravind Adiga in his work “The White Tiger”, that was to become the voice of the poor, downtrodden, the colossal underclass of the world’s biggest democracy.

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Prateek Deswal

Prateek Deswal, M.A. English
Beas House, Sainik School
Sujanpur Tira- 176110
Distt. Hamirpur
Himachal Pradesh
India
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