Modern Indian Society and How The Poor People Survive In Crushing Poverty, A Study Of Aravind Adiga Novels

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is the narrative of a man named Balram Halwai, his fall from moral values, and his upward social movement through crime and corruption. The writer actually paints a contemptuous and demeaning picture of Indian society. He actually through this literary work addresses the malaise of social inequality in India. He brings across the social aspirations of ambitious but impoverished youth and his struggle to move into the upper echelons of society without scruples. His training ground apparently is his being a confidant of his younger master Ashok in the corridors of power of the capital where he is used for paying bribes and coordinating. Adiga projects Indian society as a warped system and one of the main issues is the functioning of a defunct society where political patronage and monetary gain are deeply connected and define the playing ground of the corrupt affluent. The glaring issue is the way Balram ‘The White Tiger’ (an exception of his social class) is able to get away with murder and theft and is able to successfully start an enterprise pointing to the strange phenomenon of a dysfunctional civilization. The present assessment of this paper appropriately incorporates the social issues inside the novel.