ARVIND ADIGA'S THE WHITE TIGER: A TALE OF TWO INDIAS

The White Tiger, a remarkable novel of 'New India', is a brilliant Man Booker Prize Winner (2008) novel by
Arvind Adiga. Arvind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and subsequently lived in India, Australia, the US
and the UK. Presently he lives in Mumbai. The White tiger is his first novel. It is an unexpected journey into
a new India; rather it is a tale of two Indias.
The Novel revolves around two INDIAS; an affluent India, and an India of the common men facing
tremendous problems at every step of life. In this novel, Adiga has pointed out everything about everything
in India that is Hindus, Muslims, Brahmins, roads, films, animals, rivers, the poor, the rich, the Government
hospitals, the liqueur shops, the brothels, Indian caste system, politics, religion and so on and on.
It is a story of the journey of a man from darkness to light. Balram Halwai, born in a poor family in the
darkest part of India, has an innate ambition to be high and mighty like the landlords. But he realizes that
there is no future for him in the village and feels to flee away breaking family bonds to make his living as per
his intense wish. While living in the metro city, he uncovers the sordid, bitter and biting truth underlying the
glittering city and shining India.