![]() ![]() ![]() The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. ![]() But moved beyond imagining by discovery of a poet of whom I had heard nothing, Muhammad Allama Iqbal. Blown completely alert to a view of poverty in India that is not an advertisement to travel or to meditate. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger Muhammad Allama Iqbal 18771938 I watched White Tiger first. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. ![]()
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