Paper Details

Name: Prabha Parmar, Sonia Saini
Country: India

Year: 2024
Volume: Volume-11, Issue-2 (July- December)
Page Number: 25-28

The societal issues facing modern-day India are examined in this research paper. The White Tiger paints an accurate view of modern civilization. It draws attention to the hardship and exploitation faced by India's underprivileged and common people. It is a realistic book that captures the raging caste, social, and religious conflicts in the culture. It focuses on how the underprivileged segments of society are exploited and discriminated against. It addresses important socio-cultural problems like terrorism, violence, poverty, starvation, corruption, and the suffering of Indians. Balram, the protagonist of The White Tiger, wants to start his own business because he is becoming more and more dependent on his family's financial stability. He is the lower class's representative. He writes a string of seven letters to Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China.
This research paper analyzes the portrayal of poverty and injustice present in the novel The White Tiger written by Arvind Adiga. It also presents the position of Balram overcomes adversity to become a successful entrepreneur. The white tiger novel presents two faces of Modern India, including the rich and poor, the rural and the urban, and the spiritual and the corrupt. It also presents socio-cultural issues of the present modern India such as poverty, hunger, corruption, violence, terrorism and suffering of people in India. The main theme including in the novel is based on psychological barricades, economic struggles, and entrepreneurship, blurring lines of morality social breakdown, self- interest, darkness, rooster coop and new India.
KEY WORDS: Caste, Class, Marginalization, Exploitation, and Entrepreneurship.