The document discusses the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It summarizes the key aspects of globalization portrayed in the novel, including Americanization, growth of call centers and outsourcing, and how these led to rapid changes in Indian culture and society. These changes involved shifting attitudes, emergence of western values, breakdown of traditions, and rising inequality. The novel provides insights into the social and economic impacts of globalization in India.

2.  The debut novel by Indian writer Aravind
Adiga
 Published in 2008
 Won 40th Man booker prize in 2008
 Dark humor on India’s poverty, corruption,
bribery, religion, education, government and
all.

3.  Globalisation: is the trend of increasing interaction between
people on a worldwide scale due to advances in
transportation and communication technology.
 Globalisation in ‘The White Tiger’
 Americanisation
 Call centers and outsourcing
 Attitude of seeing tomorrow
 Mr. Ashok and Pinky madam

4. Rapid change of India
because of globalisation
 There is much talk on America and about how India is becoming like
America.
 The way things are changing in India now, this place is going to be like
America in ten years. - Mr. Ashok
 Now, Mr. Ashok's thinking was smart. Ten years ago, they say, there was
nothing in Gurgaon, just water buffaloes and fat Punjabi farmers. Today
it's the modernest suburb of Delhi. American Express, Microsoft, all the
big American companies have offices there. The main road is full of
shopping malls—each mall has a cinema inside! So if Pinky Madam
missed America, this was the best place to bring her. - Balaram

5.  things have changed so much in India. There are so many more things I
could do here than in New York now. – Mr. Ashok
 This afternoon, driving down M.G. Road, which is our posh shopping road
with lots of American shops and technology companies, I saw the Yahoo!
people putting up a new sign outside their office .
 The whole world will come to Bangalore tomorrow. Just drive to the
airport and count the half-built glass-and-steel boxes as you pass them.
Look at the names of the American companies that are building them.
 you've also got plenty of places to drink beer, dance, pick up girls, that
sort of thing. A small bit of America in India.
Gives picture of
Americanized
India

6. Outsourcing: In business, outsourcing is "an agreement in which one
company contracts-out a part of existing internal activity to another
company".
 Balaram Describes Bangalore as world's center of Technology and
Outsourcing
 Balram talks about call centers and outsourcing.
 He says: Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—we
entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually
run America now.
 The American workday is coming to an end, and mine is beginning in earnest.
I have to be alert as all the call-center girls and boys are leaving their offices
for their homes. This is when I must be near the phone.

7.  At one café Balram listens a man talking on phone and thinks about outsourcing.
 An American today offered me four-hundred thousand dollars for my start-up and
I told him, "That's not enough!" Is Hewlett-Packard a better company than IBM?
Everything in the city, it seemed, came down to one thing. Outsourcing. Which
meant doing things in India for Americans over the phone. Everything flowed from
it—real estate, wealth, power, sex. So I would have to join this outsourcing thing,
one way or the other.
 See, men and women in Bangalore live like the animals in a forest do. Sleep in the
day and then work all night, until two, three, four, five o'clock, depending,
because their masters are on the other side of the world, in America.
 I called them all up, one after the other, the officers of all the outsourcing
companies in Bangalore. Did they need a taxi service to pick up their employees in
the evening? Did they need a taxi service to drop off their employees late at
night?
Increasing jobs in call
centers and growth in
outsourcing

8.  Studied in America
 Living totally westernised life.
 Going to mall, cinema, pub, drinking alcohol
 Pinky madam’s look is also westernized. Balaram describes her: Who had
ever seen a woman dressed in trousers before—except in the movies? I
assumed at first she was an American
 Unimportance of family and marriage values

9.  Looking toward tomorrow is much westernised idea. Protagonist Balaram
is possessed by this ides.
 when you come to Bangalore, and stop at a traffic light, some boy will run
up to your car and knock on your window, while holding up a bootlegged
copy of an American business book, wrapped carefully in cellophane and
with a title like: TEN SECRETS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS! or BECOME AN
ENTREPRENEUR IN SEVEN EASY DAYS!
 I'm always a man who sees "tomorrow"
 Anywhere there's an empty apartment, I take a look at it, I wonder, How
much can I get from an American for this in 2010? If the place has a
future as the home of an American, I put a down payment on it at once.
The future of real estate is Bangalore, Mr. Jiabao.

10.  Dominance of western culture.
 Changing cultural values and attitude
 breakdown of traditional social structures such as marriage, family life,
social mobility and the caste system
 Development in technology and outsourcing
 Breakdown of moral values
 Widening gape between rich and poor

11.  Works Cited
 Adiga, Aravind. The white tiger. New York: Free Press, 2008.
 Sutar, Suresh D and Sunil K Gondhali. The Elements of Globalization in Arvind
Adiga’s Novel ‘The White Tiger’. 24 March 2018
<http://www.natucollege.org/images/notes/english/R%20P%20Panvel.pdf>.
 The Effects of Globalization on Indian Culture in the Novel, The White Tiger by
Aravind Adiga. 24 March 2018 <https://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/the-
effects-of-globalization-on-indian-culture-in-the-novel-the-white-tiger-by-
aravind-adiga-3rqtRoEs>.
 The White Tiger. 16 January 2018. March 2018
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Tiger>.
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