White tiger
Aravinda Adiga narrates unseen face of population which dwells under the basement of sophisticated apartments. It is all about a driver turning to an entrepreneur.
Story revolves around a chauffeur who writes a letter to the visiting Chinese minister to India. In that he speaks of his social conditions, economic position in niche reveals a suffocation and hatred ness towards his condition in the unseen cage … his consciousness. Balram feels himself as a rare creature of the nature ‘WHITE TIGER’ that discovers itself in a small cage. At the end his inner voice finds a way to come out of the cage by murdering his owner Ashok.
Balram struggle for existence starts with his migration to the city from his village, learning driving and finding owner to feed him. After coming to the close circle of his owner and looking at owner’s immense wealth which he had earned in coal mining in his village the opportunistic pathogen of his character find a way to gain freedom from his cage.
Even though he knew the consequence of his family in village going to face in hands of coal mine owners he reaches a point he is no more ready to die in cage in which he is still breathing.
A driver discovers his new life and builds his own entrepreneur the "White tiger Enterprises" in Bangalore after murdering his employer. He creates opportunities for hands in ‘Namma Bangaluru… again proves the generosity and opportunity which he shows towards the society.
White tiger reveals a huge boundary that is built between the two edges of the society in India. Not to remind the same kind of gaps that dwell in china to mention and in any other western countries in this planet.
In one point even we defend Balram about murdering Ashok as his employer decides to send his employee to jail in behalf of the accident done by his wife,which kills a road side kid.
Adiga cement us to the book, makes us to think about a driver from darkness can be loyal at one point and can be fatal also. His lines oscillates our thoughts with dilemma that can we believe a driver? Before this question rises is this a humanity to exploit a Drivers life to save his wife who is going to divorce him shortly?
Balram shows humanity in his character by picking up his cousin along with him while fleeing to Bangalore from Delhi with owner’s money after murdering him. He shows compassion in a situation where one of his driver killed a boy in an accident and Balram offers job to the victim’s brother. This shows every rich man once upon a time was victim of money.
The thought that strikes to my mind is poverty don’t tell us not to be tidy and clean but yes the truth is that they don’t need to be and they are not aware of that. Balram represents this feeling during his first tooth brushing ceremony where he thinks “why my father never told me to brush my teeth… why he never told me to not live like an animal”?
White tiger represents population which is under poverty that present in any other country. By the time i finish reading the story makes my mind to think Balram the owner of ‘White tiger enterprises’ is a respectable person and can serve and support himself and others Life to make them also a free tiger …a developing population of a developing country.
Adiga ends the white tiger by representing Balram as a forest in which many tigers can breathe fresh air without a cage. Balram ends his letter to Chinese minister about being a part of the brighter India in which Chinese minister can find independent lamps like him who came up to light India from darkness.
