Aravind Adiga\'s the White Tiger : A Symposium of Critical Response

Contents: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: Introduction/Santwana Haldar and R.K. Dhawan. 1. Life and works. 2. The white tiger: an unexpected journey into a new India. 3. Controversy over Real India. 5. Narrative pattern and the use of Rhetoric. 6. Use of Binary opposition for satire. 6. A galaxy of Witty remarks in the novel. 7. V.S. Naipaul and Aravind Adiga. Comparative perspectives: 1. The theme of poverty in the 21 century Indian English Novel with special reference to Kiran Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Aravind Adiga/Neeru Tandon. 2. Mirror to reality?: A study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/Santwana Haldar. 3. Politico-social and cultural consciousness in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger/Krishna Singh. 4. Freedom and corruption: a comparative study of Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Adiga’s The White Tiger/Nanda Kishore Mishra. 5. Class structure in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger/Tanushree Singh. Metaphor of Darkness: 1. The White Tiger: a realistic portrayal of the India of darkness/Neeru Tandon. 2. The White Tiger: a shocking commentary on the darkness of shining India/Shilpi Saxena. 3. The White Tiger: a mirror to India’s heart of darkness/Harbinder Kasur. Literature as mirror to life: 1. The white tiger: a realistic picture of New India/Sunita Agarwal. 2. Westward Ho! Half-baked realities and the fully formed stereotypes in The White Tiger/Amarjeet Nayak. 3. Delhi as a metaphor of post industrial India in The White Tiger/Beena Agarwal. 4. A view from Down under: the Discourse of The White Tiger/Devika Khanna Narula. 5. The new morality in The White Tiger/Meenakshi Choubey. 6. India relocated in Adiga’s The White Tiger/Prakash Bhadury. 7. The White Tiger: a tale of two Indias/Savitri Tripathi. 8. The art of Carnivalization in The White Tiger/Philomina Zacharia. 9. Many more white tigers/Sunita Agarwal. Caste and culture: 1. Class and cultural consciousness: a perspective on The White Tiger/Karuna Kara Roul. 2. Balram Halwai: an Anti-Hero/Sarika Bajpai and R.N. Shukla. 3. The White Tiger: a Voice of the Unheard/Dashrath. Protest and revolt: 1. The White Tiger: Balram’s quest for status/Anjana Trivedi. 2. A reader’s response to the White Tiger/Kiran Chaudhry. 3. The White Tiger: an anatomy of deepening moral crisis in New India/Sarita Veerangana. 4. In defence of The White Tiger on the version of Deepak Adhikari/Kamal Kumar Raul.

The White Tiger, the Booker prize winning novel 2008 by Aravind Adiga, has generated tremendous response both in literary and academic circles. Critics have been equally lavish in praising the book as they have been in condemning it. Hailed as extraordinary and brilliant, thrilling and insightful, witty and unpretentious, the novel is considered as one of the most powerful books published in the recent years. The present book offers varied interpretations of the novel by eminent Indian critics and is a welcome addition to the fast-growing corpus of Indian English fiction.