Iqra Shagufta Research Scholar (English) Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. & Noor-ul-Qamar Qasmi Lecturer in English GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Abstract: The White Tiger is the narration of a journey of the protagonist Balram from rags to riches amid fierce class war, exploitation, amorality and expanding globalization. Balram is crushed in a callously stratified society…
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The Theme of Corruption and Moral Decadence in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Sushil Sarkar Research Scholar Department of English. Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan , West Bengal. Recently Anna Hazare and his followers at Jantar Mantar in Delhi had been undergoing his hunger strike for passing the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill for making India a corruption free state. We may call Anna Hazare the second Gandhi for following the…
Population Growth and Environmental Issues: Reflections in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Archana Bhattacharjee Research Scholar Singhania University Rajasthan, India Abstract Environmentalists claim that most of the current problems that humans are experiencing in terms of climatic change to rapid resource extraction are all caused due to human population growth. Population growth has contributed to some of the major environmental problems that we are experiencing today. Eco-criticism…
Appearance versus Reality: Exposition of Faulty Political System in India in Adiga’s The White Tiger
Irfan Ahmad Thoker Research Scholar Lovely Professional University Jalandhar, Punjab India is called the largest democracy in the world and Indians are proud to be called so. It is a country where people have freedom to express and the right to elect their representatives. These elected representatives are supposed to work for the welfare of…
Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A study of Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
Ram Bhawan Yadav The politic of literary representation is supposed to be deliberate and complex in its nature and approach. The motivation, intent and agenda that direct such endeavor often result in domain of conflict, which leads to the crisis of literary, social and political representation. As Simon Featherstone points out, “In postcolonialism it [the…