The White Tiger

            The White Tiger

              "The White Tiger " tells the story of Balram Halwai.  I am agree with  India represented in the novel The White Tiger. As Adiga says that India is two countries in one ; an India of Light and an India of Darkness. So we can say that The rural or the village is called as Dark India and urban or city is called as the India of Light. Light become a multifaceted symbol of time,  wealth,  and obligations. When Darkness represents the past, poverty, rural India and most importantly locality to family and master.

                 The centre figure  Balram satirizes on the religion and also the makes fun on the God and Goddesses of India. So we can say it is about old morality vs New morality. We can see satirical tone in everything like education, religion, politics, etc. The White Tiger is the discussion of the India caste system highly and lower social classes. The caste system still remains in rural India. 

      

         Balram gives his own breakdown of the caste system in India, describing that it was a

                 ".... clean, well kept orderly Zoo" .

 He tells the story of how India still has a caste system and political as well as economic corruption is still present. So this novel it represents the reality of India. Adiga also taunts on secularism on India where a Muslim change his name as Rampersad in order to get job. Adiga mention the river Ganga that has become a black river. The White Tiger voices funny describing  social injustice of Modern India with balanced humour and fury. In novel the character of Pinky Madam that symblize the Modern women of dark India who has nothing to do with Social,  moral of family values. 

             I believed that Balram’s story is the archetype of all stories of “rages to riches”. For example the movie “Slumdog millionaire” same story like the white tiger. In movie the centre figure Jamal is a poor man and at last he was rich. So in same way in the White Tiger we can say that Jamal and Balram Halwai as a man of ‘rags of riches’. Balram begins life in a poor village but murders his boss and steals a large sum of money to become a self-made entrepreneur. We can also say is referred to persons like Dhirubhai Ambani, Narendra Modi etc... 

            Deconstruction reading of  Adiga's “The white Tiger” Here in this novel we see  that Balaram Halwai's character  that it is the 'autobiography of half-baked Indian’. Because in the novel Arvind Adiga present reality of life or India.Text itself gives hint to deconstruct the text. we can say that the use of language itself the deconstruct the text.