How realities of India reflect in the novel ‘White Tiger’

Topic: How realities of India reflect in the novel ‘White Tiger’

Name of the paper: New literature

Roll no: 07

Prepared by: Dipti Vaghela

Dedicated to: Department of English M.K.B. University

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Introduction:

As a part of the paper ‘New Literature’ we have to make assignment on our favorite topic. So, I have answered these many questions in my assignment.

-        What is the novel ‘White Tiger’?

-        What are the realities of India?

-        Are realities of India reflects in the novel ‘White Tiger’?

-        How can we conclude the topic?

What is the novel ‘White Tiger’?

It is written by Arvind Adiga in 2008. The main Protagonist of the novel is Balram Halavai. He is an anterpriner he share his experiences in his dialogues. We can see his whole life in this novel. And how he will become innocent to violent? That we can see in this novel. This novel   reflects the reality of India. We can also see the master slave relationship in the novel. We can see many issues in the novel like religion, caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty of India. Adiga get Nobel Prize for this novel. Themes of the novel are globalization, individualism, freedom, immorality, corruption, social class, etc. It written in seven constructive nights and addressed to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao.

Realities of India

As we know that anything has its positive and negative points. If we think about any person so he/she has plus and minus points. No one is perfect as same if we think about the country India it is same. We can say many positive as well as many negative points about India. There are some statements given by various students like Vanita, Sonal and Asmita as under,

In these images they wrote about India what are the realities. And they also say that poverty in India. So let’s know it in the novel.

Realities of India in the novel ‘White Tiger’

       Balram get name from teacher here that dialogue,

‘Well, it’s up to me, then isn’t it? He passed his hand through his hair and said, ‘we’ll call you…Ram. Wait don’t we have a Ram in this class? I don’t want any confusion. It’ll be Balram.  

        It is also real incident because I have a friend and she said me that her name is also like Balram. Her true name, Kailas gets by her teacher. So we can say that here also Adiga wrote right thing about our country.

“See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.” 

We can say that it is right because everybody want be rich while rich people are managing their weight because they are fat. So we can’t deny that it is not reality of India.

“Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them. They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.” 
           

It’s really in our country we can’t escape our self because it’s in India for example poor people are aware that they live life like poor but they never try to be rich and that is reality of India. So we can say that Adiga is right in his statement.

“Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling.”

            We can see it in this photo as under,

 Indirectly Balram try to say about child labor and we can see it at many places. From those here I put one image but there are many children who unable to get education. Because they are doing some work and their family survive on his money. So, they never get time to study and if we think about girl child so they have to do work at home but never allow to study. I don’t want to say that all child but many can’t get education in our country because of these many reasons.

"See, the Muslims have one god.
"The Christians have three gods."And we Hindus have 36,000,004 divine arses to choose from.” 
           

            Here we can see in this photo that we have so many gods and goddesses.

The temple. Inside, you will find an image of a saffron coloured creature,  half man half monkey: This is Hanuman, everyone’s favourite god in Darkness.

            It is right description because here we can see the real photo of the temple of Hanuman as under,

and it’s as same as in description. I have taken this photo from the society of ‘Kaliyabid’ near our room. Address Shanti nagar society, near Parijat school. There are many dirt and wastage things near that temple. And it is a real India.

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.
These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.” 
           

And yes, we can see it in every home photo of Rama with his servant Hanuman. As under,

We can’t say that any literature reflects complete reality of the any nation. But some realities we can see in the novel whether it is ‘White Tiger’ or any other like in Gujrati ‘Malela Jiv’ by Pannalal Patel and ‘Mela Anchal’ by Fanishvarnath Renu in Bangali. But somehow there are some realities which reflect in literature. As same in this novel also we can see some realities of India. And there are many other point also which represents the reality of India but I think these much reasons are enough to prove that Adiga try to put realities of India.

Conclusion

         So after all I would like to conclude this topic that everything has its plus and minus point. As same our India also so if we discuss or highlight minus points. So gradually we can remove it but if we are hiding those harsh realities so it never removed from our country. So writers are reform able not hiding and that is the main point. So we have to start it from our self…   

(Adiga)

Works Cited

Adiga, Arvind. White Tiger. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.

Colonialism in “Thing fall apart” and “Mahabhrata”

Colonialism in “Thing fall apart” and “Mahabhrata”

Name of the paper: New literature

Roll no: 07

Prepared by: Dipti Vaghela

Dedicated to: Department of English M.K.B. University

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Index

-        Introduction

-        Define the word ‘Colonialism’

-        Some points regarding the novel ‘Things fall apart’

-        Some points regarding ‘Mahabharata’

-        Colonialism in ‘Things fall apart’ and ‘Mahabharata’

-        Conclusion

Introduction:

        African people are marginalizing with comparing white people. Whites are superior rather than African; they are marginalizing because of color. They are white and these are black. And we can see it in their literature also so here I want to write my assignment on that topic as under,

Define the word ‘Colonialism’

        Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. It is also involves political and economic control over a dependant territory. It means power of one people on another. We are applying our power on to another that we call colonialism. Everywhere power played a vital role. In this one race or people suppressed by another so be careful. According to dictionary as under,

The policy or practice of a wealthy or powerful nation's maintaining or extending its control over other countries,especially in establishing settlements or exploiting resources.

Colonialism is a system in which one country creates an empire by taking over other lands and making them into colonies. Colonies don't have power over themselves, and the mother country takes resources and money from the colony. It's not a very fair system, but it's also how the United States got its start: England was really into colonialism and had built a huge empire, until some feisty American patriots decided to rebel.

Things Fall Apart

        It is written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958. It shows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo leader and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian village of Umuofia . We can see it in three parts like family and personal history, the customs and society of the Igbo and influence of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on the Igbo community. Okonkwo is the main protagonist who is famous in that area. He is strong, hardworking showing like without weaknesses. And he is good person and everybody show him as good leader. Then he kills the boy and after killing that boy he feels guilty for his self.  Then gradually things go wrong with him. He and his family are sent into exile for seven years. During that time he sees the religion of Christianity increased. And when he comes back to his village so many changes he sees. And in the end he hangs his self. And no one goes to touch his body because to do suicide is sin in Christianity. So, it ends with this tragic.

Mahabharata:

        This is an epic and for Indian people it is religious and pious book. There are so many characters in the epic. Five ‘pandvas’ are heroes of the epic. And life of two family and war between them we can see in it. And there are some characters like Eklavya, Hidimba, etc. They are living in the forest and they not allow getting education. So, there are some rules and regulations in epic which are decided by people they are on power. There are various types of characters like Arjuna, Bhim, Drona, Eklavya, etc. So these are some basic information’s about it.

Colonialism in Things fall apart and Mahabharata

        In this work we can see that White people try to overpower on African people. They change even religion also. They are marginalized people and white people are on super position. When Okonkwo come back to his village at that time there are so many changes he sees but he is unable to control on that. And those changes they can’t see and that’s why he committed suicide. White people try to convert as possible as human being into Christianity. White people think that they are doing something good and they are reforming those people but it is not so. White people are destroying the culture of African people. One colony established the power on other for example white people on African people. In our India also we can say that America is on super power and they are ruling in the world. Somewhere direct and somewhere indirect but they are on power. Now let’s know that how Colonialism is in Mahabharata.

        In Mahabharata when Pandvas come into Hastinapur at that time also tribal people were living there and Kshatriya destroy the culture of tribal people. Generally what happened, that history written by those people who are on power position? And because of this reasons they marginalize those people who are not on power position. And perhaps that’s why they people become ‘Danava’ and writer draws them as a Danava. But in real sense they are not like Rakshasha , they are also humans as we are. We make the difference between them and us but it is not like that. There are some narratives that when Rishies doing their Sadhana at that time Rakshas come and distureb them. But if we question that why they are disturbing them? So answer is that those tribal people are owner of that land while these new Kshtriyas are not. This is the reason of that fighting going on between them. But point is that narratives of this book people from Kshatriya and that’s why they describe tribal people as bad people.

        Another point is that regarding ‘Hidimba and her son Gturgas’. Hidimba is a wife of Bhima who belongs to kshatriya family while Hidimba from tribal. Otherwise Gaturgas is the biggest son among all sons of Pandvas. And so he will be the King of Hastinapur but it is not so. Because we know that everywhere power played a vital role whether in education or politics. There are many places where owner of the land suffers because of some authority people. If we give the example from our body so let see. Generally we think that mind is more powerful than the body but it is according to mind. But in real it is there or not that we never know. Because in this case, mind is on power position. And that’s why it is one of the powerful parts in our body. So, if we minutely observe the things then we must have to find this type of issue everywhere whether in Africa or America. It doesn’t make any difference because humans are same. We can read Mahabharata in various points of view but if we have vision. Some authority established their power on people of another community and that is colonialism. In this type of theory we must have to think from both the sides. And that thing we can see in this two different works.

Conclusion:

        So, after all I want to say that colonies of another people are not bad thing but main point is that it not be force fully. If that person wants to change their religion willingly then it’s ok. But freedom of any individual is very much important rather than any other things. If the people from any race or class destitutions and they try to force him/her to change their identities from one to another religion and that is the problematic. If we think about in our society so we can say that in our village lower caste people like Harijan, vankar, etc living out of the village and then if area of village broader than they have to left that area so that we also called colonialism.

 

Works Cited

n.d. <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/colonialism>.

n.d. <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/colonialism>.

n.d. <Wikipedia contributors. "Colonialism." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Mar. 2016. Web. 26 Mar. 2016.>.