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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ARAVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER
G. S. Pavan KumarAssistant Professor in English
Prasad V Potluri Siddhartha Institute of TechnologyKanuru, Vijayawada.
Contact: 919059996043 [email protected]
India known for its rich culture and heritage has its own darker side that hinders
and going to hinder our nation from evolving into a super power. It is a well accepted
naked truth that we don’t even have safe drinking water, proper sanitation but we have
better entrepreneurs in millions. India does have class and caste system where the higher
dominates the lower, but the actual system of demarcation is made between the haves and
the have-nots. Here in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, the readers are made familiar to
the darker sections of life in a first person narrative through out depicting the hardened
life of a servant in a callous tone. It is more of a confession of a guilt-driven conscience
who writes letters in a row of seven days depicting his life events; and how he was turned
into a murderer uncaught and explains the skills which were not taught at schools and the
books to be a real entrepreneur.
The author portrays the protagonist in a mirror like image of thousands of Indian
reality. Through the eyes of Balram AKA The White Tiger, we are made to see the
turmoil of the lower income sections and their struggle for survival in the jungle
wandered by the stork, the wild boar, and the buffaloes. It is not the need for money that
made him commit the murder but the suppressed emotions and the humiliation from
inside and outside did. The themes like discrimination, poverty, humiliation, etc are
discussed in the paper.
