The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

   The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

   The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The story is framed as a letter to the prime minister of China from a man who calls himself the “White Tiger.” Born as Balram Halwai, the “White Tiger” grows up in Laxmangarh, an poor, rural region along the Ganges River. Balram refers to his hometown as “The Darkness.” During a surprise inspection, a school official dubs Balram a “white tiger” for his outstanding intelligence. But despite his promise, Balram is forced to drop out of school and work in a tearoom to support his family. He overhear customers chatting about chauffeur salaries and convince his family to pay for driving classes. In swap, he agrees to send money home to his family each month.
   
  Aravind Adiga's novel The White Tiger challenges definitions of Indian identity with a narrator who comes from a past of unknown of name and birthday with a fate as a member of the lower caste. Arvind Adiga has not single point remained to show the Indianess like Globalization, Democracy, Dowry system, corruption , rich urban communities, entrepreneurs, politics and religion. In reality or such writers present the pastoral image are far better but here the things are change as city is better as it is generally thought by Indian
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   Balram was poor and had every experience of lower class people so he developed his own ethics to become rich. Gandhi hurt when British throw him out of train so he starts revolutionary act against British. Balram’s story is the Archetype of all stories of ‘rags to riches’. Balram has decided to share his own story of entrepreneurial success.  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.