'The White Tiger' by Arvind Adiga

This Blog is a part of my classroom activity.

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

Arvind Adiga portrayed lighter and darker picture of India in his novel. Adiga's novel is divided India into two distinct zone-Darkness and light. As the protagonist initially inform the premier-

'I am in light now, but I was born and raised in darkness.'(14,The White Tiger)

Adiga also talk about the Indian education system and corrupt roots of India. Our education system in the 'darkness' is made up of schools where a teacher's primary focus is not in teaching, but in earn money by corruption and by dishonesty. Another feature of darkness of India is elections. Where vote of people was counted even the people don't gave their vote and don't know about that anything. Adiga also portrayed Indian political system, judiciary, Police, administrative officers, political leaders all have different slandered for the elite and different once for the economically deprived. Adiga employs the 'rooster coop' analogy to his vision of enslaved Indian Masses,social life and ridicule of Indian Marriage.

2) Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'Rags to Riches'?

Yes, this story is the archetype of all stories of 'Rags to riches', but at some extent. Stories like Balram it, gives hope to the poor people that they also can grow up. Most of the successful stories deals with the idea of 'Think big' and 'Dream big' or 'Think differently'. But Balram done bad things (murder) to become rich. But may be not everyone who get success they done bad, that is may be their hard work also. If we think on the side of post modernism way, then we can say that Balram has his own new morality then it is a archetypal story from 'Rags to rices'. We can apply the idea of 'Dhirubhaism' as a good example of the story of rages to riches and also the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' also show Jamal Malik's story of become rags to riches.

3) “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?

Yes, it is possible to do deconstruction of the text 'The White Tiger.'

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

By this line spoken by Balram Halwai, by half-baked who present the critical ideas about India, we can not surley believe on that Ideas that it is really true of false? By this point we can deconstruct it.

4) It is possible to read 'The White Tiger' in context of the Globalization?

“For surley any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top”.

From this line we can say that in our society rich people ruled on poor people and that's why the poor feels inferior and for become rich they d something wrong like Balram. Balram worked as a servant and that's why he know the situation of servant and master- slave relationship. He also help his driver when his driver kill one person by accident, that time Balram save him. In globalized India rich people become richer and poor become more poor. There is only two destinies : eat or eaten up. It means you have to survive your self otherwise serve others. Many people like Balram in India they do something bad/wrong for become a rich in the globelized India.