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Today I am going to wrote about the white tiger novel is written by Aravind Adiga. This blog is my academic work. This task is given by Dilip barad sir from Department of English Bhavnagar University. As Indians we have always been taught to be patriotic for our nation, and from childhood we grew up hearing big stories about India. But the reality is far away from this. Our mind is culturally so shaped that we can not see anything beyond 'our' religion and nation. There are innumerable examples of stories and narration which sing the glory of India, that is also true but perhaps it is only one side of the nation. We live in the country of largest democracy where the people who are in power will decide what should be said and shown to the world about our nation.
1. How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?
We live in a country where you can not speak anything which is controversial about our nation. But literature always tries to raise voice and become the voice of voiceless people. The representation of India is advanced it is also poor, corrupt, acting, and cheating. Surprisingly, I agree, not only India, but all the countries in the world have this kind of bad problem. But that doesn’t make it all bad. Adiga is clinging to the ghats of India. The novel was short-lived in the years 2008, then progressing strongly.
But even after that, the fulfillment of that talk is the destruction of poverty, corruption, and corruption in India. The India which is represented by Adiga is poor, corrupt, uneducated, and cheater also. Well I do agree that not only India but all countries in the world do have these bad kinds of problem in it. But it doesn’t make them all bad. Adiga has represented the darker side of India. This novel was written in 2008, after that India has progressed in many ways. But then even we can bot fully deny that poverty, corruption, and illiteracy are vanished from India.
Still in some remote place there are landlords who ruled over town people. Still there are many people who are not educated properly. So, we can not deny the India which is represented in “The White Tiger” by Adiga, but we can say that, India is not only what is represented by Adiga. Land lords who live far away from some places rule over the people of the city. Many people are also not properly educated. So, not allowed by India, but introduced by Adiga, introduced by “White Tiger”, but that’s not what we’re talking about.
(2) Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?
But literature always tries to raise voice and become the voice of voiceless people. However we live in an era of darkness where power controls everything. Hence there are texts which speak about the dark side of India. For example Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Train to Pakistan by Khushvant Singh etc. There are innumerable examples of texts like this. And yes probably that is the real side of India. The White Tiger is one of these texts.
India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness.
~Arvind Adiga (The White Tiger)
We can see that at the end of the stories depicting the poor as the central character make the poor rich. We can see a lot of people who are like Balaram. Belonging to a poor and extended family, who has not completed their studies, who goes to work from an early age and who has insulted the rich.
Balram’s story becomes the archetype of all stories but We can say only 30 to 40 percent of people can follow the same thing as Balram did especially in the era of Post-truth. People can take as new morality like Balram said. But others can also become a good and well-known person in society through the hard work, think out of the box, intelligence and some time may be luck. For ex-In slumdog millionaire movie, Jamal became rich. Because people of India wants to become reach anyway and that’s why they used lottery tickets or this kind of shows also.
Such stories depict the struggle of the poor to achieve their dream and to become rich. Ways to reach the goal of wealth may be different in each story but suffering is always the same. So, in this way, we can say that Balram's story is the wonder of all the stories of 'Ragathi Reaches'.
Man booker prize winner novel The White Tiger is a debut novel by an Indian English author Arvind Adiga. The novel is a deep satire on politics, education, religion, business, democracy, ideas of Gandhi and Buddha. He understands things with the limited power of analysis. He allocates deep shallow philosophies to his shallow thoughts and thinking.
For example, he compares the idea of killing his master to gaining freedom with the knowledge of the Buddha.We can deconstruct it with the help of Derrida's notion of the meaning of the free play. To break the language we need to find its loose stone. The yellow stone of "The White Tiger" is that Balram himself says that he is "semi-supported". This word breaks the philosophy and all the ideals that Balram gives by giving his own example. Because he is not fully educated. He understands things with the limited power of analysis. He allocates deep shallow philosophies to his shallow thoughts and thinking. For example, he compares the idea of killing his master to gaining freedom with the knowledge of the Buddha.
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