The White Tiger

Arvind Adiga's debut novel 'The White Tiger' won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. This book is a tale of two Indias through the eyes of Balram, a son of a rickshaw puller, who narrates his journey from darkness to the hustling bustling life of sub urban area of Gurgaon in Delhi. Balram is a storng headed person who wont let the lack of education come in the way of his dream to lead a prosperous lfe in the future.

He belongs to the majority of Indians who live a lowly life in the darkness where their basic necessities are snatched from time to time by the wealthy people. His job as a driver (cum cook cum house cleaner) at a welthy man's house in Gurgaon brings him face to face with the new India where city ouskirts are being turned into cocrete jungle and where one cannot do without bending to the corrupt system. In order to live his dream of being an entepreneur, he murders his master, steals the money and runs off to Bangalore. There he starts his own business with a new name and new identity.

The rise of a fourth grade drop out Balram from darkness to entepreneur success and his journey all along brings forward the unspoken, unaddressed issues of people living in darkness and the orthodox Indian families (rich and poor alike) that are being masked under the growing economic boom in India.