![]() ![]() ![]() The author takes a satirical look at a player in the new Indian economy, Balram, who rises to a successful software entrepreneurship from a rural existence in a low-class Hindu caste. In the letter Balram describes the contradictions and complications of Indian society. When the president of China’s is to visit Bangalore, Balram decides to write a letter to him describing his own transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family. A poor man from the largest democracy on earth writing to a powerful man who leads the largest non-democratic country on earth. So, the white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. ![]() The book is written as an e-mail from the white tiger of the book to the President of China. The White Tiger, was his debut novel and it won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was educated at Columbia Universty, which is a private, Ivy League, research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The writer, Aravind Adiga, is an Australian-Indian author who was born in Chennai in India on 23 October, 1974. The White Tiger is not like any book I have read before. ![]() My friend Maggie had read The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and suggested that we go with this book instead of the other on offer. Our book group suffered a confusion and we were offered two books to choose from instead of one book for the month being nominated. ![]()
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