The document discusses themes and topics covered in Arvind Adiga's novel The White Tiger including identity crisis, cultural discrimination, political corruption, marginalization, relationships, and the concept of self-fashioning experienced by the main character Balram Halwai. It also examines the novel's portrayal of class divide, social injustice, and neo-liberal economic reforms in India through Balram's transformation from servant to business owner. The document provides analysis of symbols, characters, and the author's critique of contemporary Indian society in the novel.

2. Mahyavanshi Bhavnesh s
Hina Chauhan
Monika makvana

3.  History
 Identity
 Symbols
 Hero
 Revenge
 Marxism
 Class/Caste
 Religion
 Poor and Rich
 Power politics
 Social
 Dislocation
 Myth
 Economics
 Corruption
 Narcissism
 Enlightment
 Good/Evil
 Subaltern

4. Globalization
China’s Relationship to India
Lightness and Darkness
Class/Caste
Freedom

5. Arvind adiga’s The White Tiger: a
search for Identity
 -Identity Cricis
 -Cultural discrimination
 -Political corruptions&Inferiority Complex
 -Identity as the Prime Concern in the novel through
which writer highlights most of the evils in the indian
Societies.
 -Marginal tribes in the early free Indian Villages.
 -Adiga depicts both the downtrodden,unpleasent
deprived place and the highly developed cities like
Delhi and Bangalore.
 -Marginalized people are usually discriminated ignored
and often suppressed on the basis of
race,gender,culture,religion,ethnicity,ocupation
education,and economy by mainstream.
 -The name “MUNNA” and the Given name “BALRAM”.

6.  Myth- master-servent relationship in the heroic age and that of
postmodern age.
 Rooster coop mentality of the Indians.
 Hanuman utterly obidient and respectful to his master.
 hanuman- as a shining example of how to serve your masters
with absolute fidelity,love and devotion.
 Religion is criticised by Karl Marx as the ‘Opiate of the
Masses”.
 The Issue of Servitude.
 Balram as a most religious servant on Earth.
 Modern day Hanuman is as different as Modern Day Sita.
 Hanuman, necklace given by Sita- Modern Hanuman keeps
strong Bottle of Johnnie Walker Black to Murder his Master.

7.  Relationships in day to day life.
 - Relations can be separated into negative and positive relationships.
 -The incedent when Balra m losts coin of one rupee.
 -Instructions by masters about Do’s and Don’ts.
 -Ashok and Pinky making fun of his pronounciation( Pizza-Pijja, Mall-
Maal)
 -Humiliation by Master.(case of Drink and drive)
 -Marxist significance of the title ‘The White Tiger’
 -Tiger imprisoned in the cage is similar to law class imprisoned in the
cage of the suppressing class.
 -The circumstances and society of India is similar to the tiger which
is bound and chained in the cage.
 -Balram’s Materialistic tone throughout the novel.
 -Balram comes out of the cage and fights with the circumstances and
achieves the level of the Master,for him no matter how he achieves.

8.  The White Tiger highlights the unglamourous yet real
Picture of modern India.
 -The Poor education system of India.
 -an India of Light And An India of Darkness
 -‘The White Tiger’ Name given by Inspector.
 - Dowry System
 -The Four landlords named as four animals.
 The Buffalo
 The Stork
 The Wild Boar
 The Raven
 -Corruption which hits any country the hardest.
 -Judicial system of India.
 -Drivers as a Scapegoats.

9. Master narrative
“The Moment you show cash , everyone
knows your Language”
Auto fiction
• “Fiction because all memory is fictionalizing

10.  Balaram Halwai is presented as modern Indian Hero in the midst of
the economic prosperity of India in the recent Past.
 -Balram as a representative of the poor in india Yearns for their
Tomorrow.
 -He is not Only an Enterpreneure but also a roguish criminal
remarkably capable of self-justification.
 -Injustice&Inequality
 - Social discontent&Violence
 -Neo-Libral economi reforms in India.
 -Democratic Practice and Social Iniquality in India.
 -Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen examine the role of Democratic
practice in contemporary India.
 -Reading of ‘Murder Weekly’
 -Two kinds of India in Delhi (Prey&Predators)
 -Communication Gap is the symbol of Poor Rich divide that is
fermenting to take revange.
 -Balram as a Psychopath.

11.  Main character Balram Halwai from the novel The White Tiger written
by a renowned Indian writer
 Aravind Adiga commits a severe crime. He murders his own master.
This becomes a turning point in his life from being a chauffeur to
being a business entrepreneur and tycoon. The way his identity is
fashioned as result of his own wishes and expectations and the
surrounding controlling mechanisms and forces that manipulate and
alter his thought and perception is brimful of convoluted incidents
that take place before the murder. The concept of Self fashioning as
speculated and described by Stephen Greenbelt deals with
fashioning by an individual and the
 surrounding factors. The cultural and social forces act upon the
mentality of an individual and thus bring about a mutual
understanding between the old-self and new-self, and old-authority
and new-authority. The process of self fashioning goes through a
tremendous procedure in Balram’s life.
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12.  Unity in Diversity
 Fake Democracy
 Shining India??????????
 Voice of The People from “The Darkness”
 M.Q.Khan remarks that “The Book as a whole
presents the crude, dark and naked facts
about India”
 Delhi: Illogically numbered houses and
circuitous streets
 Car accident
 Loyal Servant
 Conclusion

13. Darkness
Uniform
Democracy
The Great Indian Rooster Coop

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