6/9/2023 0 Comments The white tiger novel writer![]() The narrative shows the resilience of stereotypes of the village, this time from a new vantage-point of India’s transnational presence where the take of a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ 2 on ‘India Shining’ 3 shows up the grim underbelly of national development. Although Adiga has claimed that he was inspired in the writing of the novel by the examples of writers like Flaubert, Balzac, and Dickens, who ‘helped England and France become better societies’, 1 the novel presents a onesided approach to rural life and rehearses the fears of middle-class metropolitan Indians. The novel is a far cry from the utopian potential that Amitav Ghosh invested in the far-flung village communities of the Sundarbans where battles with natural disaster parallel those with state apathy, but where also, the village was the site for a renewed faith in engendering positive social change. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time of writing this book, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga was awarded the 2008 Man Booker Prize. ![]()
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