Post-modern India and Identity Politics in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: An Exploration

The White Tiger which has been charged of being a booker’s book and not a bright book of life shows us the rotten society of post-modern India. A society where corruption has become rampant; where politics is the roost of crooked people; where elections are sold and bought routinely for political mileage. The whole novel seems to be a game of identity where the haves are trying to maintain their self-hood and have-nots are seekers of self-hood. Adiga has tried to show how in the ruse of India-shining, India herself is hiding her original identity of India-struggling; in the ruse of the White Tiger the novelist depicts what is hidden and sidelined in the booklets of our diplomats