Thinking Activity on 'The White Tiger'

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

• • first of all darkness is responsible because of the religion. Village people are superstitious in these matters. Balram satirizes on the religion first. Also he makes fun on the God and Goddesses of India. 

“ It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.

I guess, Your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god’s arse.

Which god’s arse, though? There are so many choices.

See, the Muslims have one god.

The Christians have three gods.

And we Hindus have 36,000,000 gods.

Making a grand total of 36,000,004 divine arses for me to choose from.

How quickly do you think you could kiss 36,000,004 arses?”

• Hanuman- the Indian God came. No doubt that the representation of God Hanuman is in satirical way but the fact is that he is serving his master. Every mythical story teach something so if this story taken by people so the hidden agenda or background reading may told the same story as Adiga tries to told us.

• The reference of divine goddesses Ganga in the form of river also presented here in this novel.

“ But the river brings darkness to India- the black river.

Which black river am I talking of – which river of Death, whose banks are full of rich, dark, sticky mud whose grip traps everything that is planted in it, suffocating and choking and stunting it?

Why, I am talking of Mother Ganga, daughter of the Vedas, river of illumination, protector of us all, breaker of the chain of birth and rebirth. Everywhere this river flows, that area is the Darkness.”

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

• Balram’s story is the Archetype of all stories of ‘rags to riches’. Balram has decided to share his own story of entrepreneurial success. He believes his rags-to-riches tale will show the premier “the truth about Bangalore”, representing all that fascinates and appeals to Balram about the Light of urban coastal India. He controls light and darkness, where he once was a slave to circumstance and others.