International Journal of Language & Literature

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a Re-inscription of Modern India
Monir A. Choudhury

Abstract
The image of modern India hadacquired such media hypeand its success stories started receivingso much massive attention that the sufferings of the vast majority of the poor both in the rural and urban India remained unheard in the din. The economic, scientific and technologicalboom in India had attained the new denomination of the grand narratives of the country. This image of a successful India whitewashes the sufferings of the poor and the socio-economic problems that challenge the growth and development of the nation. Aravind Adiga wrote his Man Booker Prize winning debut novel The White Tiger in 2008 to question such popular image of a modern India. He wanted to re-inscribe the imagination of the present generation about the sordid deprivation of the 99.9 percent of the people so that the research scholars, political leaders and policy makers get new directions to address.This article has explicated how the landlordism, poverty, ill-equipped education system, poor health facilities, corruption in government agencies and moral degeneration have been aggravating the sufferings of the poor and decelerating the development of the nation.

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