Aravind Adiga's White Tiger.

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How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?

                                                                      

                         There is two India, India of darkness in India of light. We are looking this text in wider perspective this text is narrating a nation it become very controversy, many angles novel is narrative Nation very ugly way. satirize highlight corruption, talks very strongly on religion, society, do not see anybody is so good everybody is corrupt all strata of society. That is reflected all professional are corrupted people. Adiga represent very real about India we give real life example like do not get murderers after killing. Even Adiga criticize all of them are India. Education, business, religion, democracy, river Ganga ,Gandhi ,Hospital, politician, Indian marriage, these are all discuss in detail dark humour or satire of social realism ,criticism, corruption, in society the image of India which is presented by Adiga.

                        Balram taken out of school because of his family crisis and put to work in tea shop. In this novel where is reality of India children’s not allowed to study. Because of poverty family don't have source of income then they have to do kind of thing. Adiga wants to say threw balram halvai  is something about subaltern identity. Or can say servants desire to be master. I will master, I am not become my master I will a good master. There is also a bigger criticize English education there is a debate going on like studying in English Medium School. So how English play a vital role in India. For use English language to criticise culture, Nation, religion, for him English.  

                         In the novel also represent the Indian parents are also forget given name of his children for example in the novel present village laxmangrah first day Balram school was asked by his teacher his name but his name was not true.

                        So how Adiga write about teacher also. Even after eating to Pan, he spit there in class. Adiga satire on teacher satire on education system what kind of teacher does we have in there. How school is portrayed in Literature we see in all books Life of Pi, and white tiger. Slum dog Millionaire, also there is a school.


                       In novel how hanuman portrait in context of servant hood. “Hanuman Image of saffron colour creature half man half monkey, this is Hanuman everyone favourite god in the darkness. Do you know about Hanuman sir he was faithful servant of God Ram. And we worship him in our Temple because he is shining example how to solve your master with absolute futility love and divorce.”

                      So in this example Adiga says I don't want to be Hanuman. but I will be master and, I will be Hanuman surround me so this is his way of arguing that kind of logic through the critically look image of Hanuman. His ideas to come out from servitude.  That way it’s reflecting.

                     Indian wedding also here portrait how the create condition for child. He studies in school. and how is leaving study and going to work. Because of his cousins sister's wedding for preparation of dowry. Adiga also satire on Indian cast system. Balram halvai understand magic this magic law or universals law to survival in India or any world. Either you eat or eaten away.

                     There is also very significant symbolism rooster coop. India has invented anything it is rooster coop rather than merely the invention. India has done this rooster coop, people will be killed then we say that I was save it he died. Why should I worry about? Show Rooster Coop is this when people are dying we don't question. So India has invented Rooster coop that is what a Adiga bigger satire on India. It started from family.

                                                                     

Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?

                      Here in the novel Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches' white tiger there is a Balram richness is not progress but it's regress because he is morally corrupt man being. he do not any kind of morality .Person goes there because of they  wanted to money . Balram How to reach where he is so that confessional mode telling the process because they done several wrong things.

"Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive reading of The White Tiger? How?

                    Here we apply Derrida concept of Balram himself say I am half backed Indian a person with an incomplete understanding. Who sees the world is incomplete. You do not get 360 degree viewpoint of everything. It’s mean whole knowledge, only single dimension of happening and so it loose stone. we can break that half  baked individual cannot have 360 degree of view.

                   He calls himself half baked but he himself tells it becomes very strong, loose stone in the narrative with perhaps Adiga has beautifully put inside. Adiga says I am not saying, but it is balram's point of view. Balram is half baked Indian he is not anther angel to looking everything. Look from his that his perspective single view perspective, is easily broken can easily be deconstructed however learned one can be. This is balsam’s very narrow vision of looking at everything from where he speaks about that Adiga puts kind of loser stone in generation and he is there Indian ideas that critics should come from inside then it is better.

Is it possible to read The White Tiger in context of Globalisation?

                      Globalisation base on capitalism or can say money minded. How does it unfold under the democracy? Is under the threat because of over use of capitalism. that’s how arguments are given that rich people keep political win leader in their pocket. Capitalism globalisation will make everybody equally reach that is the idea.