The White Tiger is the Man Booker Prize winning debut novel by Indian author ArvindAdiga published in 2008. The present novel reflects a reality of Indian life which is kept hidden from society. After globalization there is a huge chasm between rich and poor India. A handful of rich class wants to have control over the large population of India. The writer has dexterously presented the life of servitude, religion, corruption, social caste system, poverty in India before the reader. This novel is a success story of the central character, BalramHalwai narrated by himself in his letter to Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao. Balram Halwai is an ambitious young man. Though he is born and brought up in a socially low category, he does not want to continue his father’s traditional business. He wants to get escape from all social restrictions of servitude. He expects freedom from Rooster Coop to become a successful businessman. In his way to success, he removes all the hindrances. He transcends his sweet-maker caste and becomes a successful entrepreneur. He does pay off his family money and even murders his employer Mr. Ashok. He discards all controls over him by family and society. On the contrary without any remorse for his foul acts he rationalizes his desperate ambition and aspirations for power and pelf. So far as his efforts and achievement is concerned he dubbed himself as White Tiger which is seen once in a generation.
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