![]() ![]() The White Tiger tells the story of a man Munna a.k.a Balram Halwai born into a family that doesn’t mind “eating their men live” as he pus it. ![]() ![]() What sells are the gritty and ugly details – destitution and corruption and chaos.Īnd Aravind Adiga quite promptly rises to the occasion to deliver just that. Yes, because it seems that no one wants to read a glossy sugary book about India. While all the foreign readers have praised it to no ends, quite a lot of Indians have found the book to be obnoxious in its depiction of the “dark” India, even gratuitous in its supposed pandering to the western crowd. But go through the reviews and you’ll notice something peculiar. As the blurb puts it, you meet “BALRAM HALWAI: THE ‘WHITE TIGER’: SERVANT, PHILOSOPHER,ENTREPRENEUER, MURDERER…”Īnd so they did, and then it even went on to win the Man Booker Prize 2008. ![]()
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