This presentation is a part of my group work which is given by heenaba ma'am to finding out post-colonial view and also the other findings on this given novel ...... so my group presented on the novel White tiger by Arvind Adiga

1. Group work
Submitteb to .... Heenaba zala
Presenters .....
Niyati pathak
Reena khasatiya
Hema goswami
Dharaba rayjada

2. • Introduction
• Part .1Two different images of India
• contemporary India
• Adiga's representation of India
• Part .2 India's social injustices
• corruption All Around
• Oppression and poverty : A servant Tale
• The effect of social inequality
• Conclusion
Let us Discuss.....

3. • Distorted religion in Arvind Adiga's white tiger
• Marriage as reason of drop out from study.
• Feminine as Power position in family
• Teasing People From Small Town
• The Fixer
• Political meaning behind the text
• Corruption
Let us Discuss.....

4. # Indian literature
#orientalism
#british colonialism , Country’s independence in 1947
In white tiger ......
Exception to tendency & sarcasm and quite self-assured narrator
#recreation of poor Indian boy’s journey ..from rural India to becoming an
entrepreneur in the up-and –coming city Bangalore's

5. Distorted religion in Arvind Adiga's
white tiger ...
• #debut novel , won booker prize in 2008 , make him
famous overnight and got ample response everywhere .
• #contrast between India's rise as a economy and
crushing rural poverty in which central character of the
novel Balram Halwai lives .
• Adiga projects his novel in angry young man mode and
presents dark aspects of shining India to expose the
other side of the ongoing developments and corruption
in country .
• #notion of religion and show how religion values are
declining due to advancement of modern civilization .

6. Marriage as reason of drop out from study
In ‘The White Tiger' Balram drop out study
because there was marriage in his family and
for economic support he joined as tea boy or
waiter in tea shop.
The same kind of incidents happens around us.
We are not free from social customs, social
bonds like celebration of marriage and dowry
etc., Sometimes became a cage for individual.

7. Feminine as Power position in family.
• Kusum as the head of family in ‘The White
Tiger’ , She is taking all the decision in family
and other family members should obey her
command as she decided about Balram's study.
• Similarly, In many families there is mother or
grand mother as in power position. They are
taking decision for all.

8. Teasing People From Small Town
• When Mr. Ashok and Pinky Medam goes to Delhi for
work, they took Balram with them as driver. They
are going to live in the city for some days and during
those days, the drivers from Delhi used to tease
Balram for coming from village, for his loyalty. They
have called him “Country – Mouse” and “Village
Idiot”.
• After tolerate enough insults and teasing Balram
choose to sleep in a room which is dirty and full of
mosquitoes and cockroaches.
• This thing we can see that mostly everyone does to
the people coming from small towns. This is
reflected in this novel also.

9. The Fixer
• These are those people who have good relations with
politicians and people who have high power
position. They become mediator of those who gave
them money to arrange the meeting or to get their
work complete from those people who are in power.
• We can see these types of people around us and this
is their only work. They also charge money on the
difficulties of work.
• In this novel we have the fixer named Ramnathan.
Mr. Mukesh has came Delhi for some political work
and Ramnathan is the fixer who is going to complete
their work.

10. Political meaning behind the text
Freedom –
Balram’s Freedom can be seen as freedom from darkness. He
moves towards city from village to earn livelihood. He makes
himself free from the family bondage then only he gets or achieve
goal in his life. If we look the actual meaning of this freedom than
it can be connected with the life of poor people who are living in
backward villages of India, who wants to do something, wants to
earn more, but because of scarcity of everything in Village they
have to shift towards city.

11. Corruption
• There are many incident in the novel which
shows the corrupt practices of Indian.
• The very first incident is when the school teacher
takes all the money of Food which is provided by
government for students.
• This reflects the reality behind the government
scheme of mid-day meal for children in which
corrupt teachers act as mediocre and takes all
the benefits without returning it to the students.

12. Image of India in The White Tiger (
Map of Contemporary India) The novel
gives binary image of Indian Society,
‘India of Darkness and India Of Light’
‘Ocean brings Light to my country.
Every place on the map of the India
near the ocean is well off but the river
(Ganga)brings Darkness to India –
black river.’
River of Death where millions of
India’s dead are cremated.
While in poem, To his Coy
Mistress by Andrew Marvell has
different image of river Ganga ‘Thou by
the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies
find; I by the tide ’

13. • IndianEducation System , another Jungle and
Elections another feature of darkness
• A Glaringerror of distinct zonesof Darknessand
Light, coexistence of lightand darknessin Delhi.
• Caste v/sClass
• Depiction of Social life andridicule of Marriage
System
• Useof binary opposition for Satire like Ganga-
Ocean, Darkness-Light, big bellies-small bellies, big
cities like Delhi& Bangalore belongs to light while
village like Lakshmangadh belongs to darkness.