Here you can find that how Arvind Adiga has portrayed the Indian society in his novel 'The White Tiger.'

1. ‘THE WHITE TIGER’ – A REPRESENTATION OF INDIAN
REALITY.
Prepared by - Hitaxi
Bhatt.
Paper 13 – The New
Literature.
Submitted To -
Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.

2.  The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of
India’s class struggle in globalized world as told through
a retrospective narration of Balram Halwai.
 Talks about India.
 India of Light and the Darkness.
 Identity.
 Concept of Rooster Coop.
 Class vs Castes.
 Globalization .
 Corruption,
 Reality,

3. 1). India Of Light and the darkness.
 “Like all good Bangalore stories mine begins far
away from Bangalore. You see. I’m in the light
now but I was born and raised in Darkness.”-
Balram Halwai.
 Light represents - Urban area, Wealth and
success.
 Symbol of – The Chandelier.
 Darkness represents - Rural area, Poverty,
struggle of individual to come out from that.
• Symbol of- The black Fort.

4. 2) Class V/S Caste.
• In the old days there were one thousand castes and
destinies in India. These days there are just two castes men
with Big bellies and men with small bellies. And only two
destinies- eat or get eaten up.”
• Caste system in India.
• Rigid social structure.
• No room for middle ground.

5. 3) Master – Servant Relationship in India.
 Symbol of Rooster Coop reflects no rebel agaignst
of the master.
 Servant in India remains trapped in servitude
 Master convinces Balram to accept the crime of
murder that is done by Pinky madam.
 Kills his master and coming out from the image of
coop.

6. 4) Globalization.
 The white Tiger takes place in a time in which
increased technology has led to world globalization and
India is no exception.
 The India describe by Balram is the throes of a major
transformation.
 Balram’s hope to ride his technology drives business in
Bangalore but this force of globalization has darker
component for him .
 Traditional way of life v/s modern life.
 He said that to get success in this world requires a
flurry of ethical and personal compromises.

7. 5) Corruption.
 Adiga does great job of highlighting the
corruption that we find in the streets of india.
 Landloards – stole money –leaving starved-
young childern to work- and pay debts .
 Death of Balram’s Father- corruption in
medical sectors- difference between private
and government sector.
 Want to win election- beating innocent man.
politics. Ministers accept bribes from rich.

8.  At the end Balram understand that to get success in
life we have to do some corrupt thing to climb up
the social and political ladders.
 Balram ends his narrative by speculative upon the
future of India.
 ‘The White Tiger’ is an appalling regression. Just
when they thought they had finally shed the old
image of India as a land of poverty, cows and
snakecharmers and started being respected as a
hi-tech, prosperous nation, along comes Adiga to,
as it were, rub their noses in the dirt again.

9. THANK YOU.