The story of Balram Halwai is set in the area of darkness, specifically in the pitch black village of Laxmangarh in Gaya district of Bihar, a stone’s throw from the Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha obtained enlightenment. And two destinies: eat – or get eaten up.’ And two places – Darkness and Light. Review of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, HarperCollins, 2008, pp 321, Price: Rs 395/-Īrvind Adiga’s 2008 Booker-winning novel, ‘The White Tiger’, is set in a very familiar milieu – the India that comes to us through the daily newspapers, that screams at us from the headlines every day, a country that ‘has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality’, which, further, is venal to the core, where ‘there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies.
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