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.