"The White Tiger"

 I do agree with the statement that India is represented in this novel ‘White Tiger’. Here writer uses Balram Halwai as the symbol of ‘White Tiger.’ He is a servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Here we can see that how Adiga has given image Balram’s journey from rags to the mountain peak. This shows that how mindset of people is constructed and whatever they do, they think it to be right. They want to become successful in a short period of time and for they find the easiest way possible. We all know India is full of corrupted and blind followers of religion, so many politicians, rigid and stubborn mindsets of people, business, democracy, crime, poverty, richness, India of light and darkness etc. I like the narrative style of Adiga because it shows the real image of India rather than sugar-coated things. Moreover literature not only shows the x-ray image of body but it provides the remedy also. Literature is fracturing the things which are already rotten in a way.

2) I believe that Balram’s story is an example of ‘rags to riches’.  For example in the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” same story like the White Tiger is depicted. In the movie the central figure Jamal is a poor man and at last he becomes rich. So in the same way in the White Tiger we can say that Jamal and Balram Halwai as men of ‘rags to riches’. Balram begins life in a poor village but murders his boss and steals a large sum of money to become a self-made entrepreneur.

3) As we can see that in the theory of deconstruction, language bears within itself. And that is the thing we can also see in the novel that Balram Halwai calls himself as a half-baked man and the whole story also. So how can we rely on the half baked man? So from this point view we can deconstruct the novel.

4) Yes, it is possible to read the novel “The White Tiger” in the context of globalisation. It is so because in today’s world the riches are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer day by day. In this novel we can see in the darker India that Balram speaks about how still the ‘master-slave’ relationship is still prevailing. Whereas, in the bright side of India the poor are trying to dominate the riches, how this is possible is a point to ponder upon.