1. Poor-Rich divide in Aravind
Adiga’s The White Tiger
• Prepared by:- Vyas
Foram
• Roll No:- 21
• M.A Part 2 Sem :- 4
• Paper No E-C -401 :
New Literature
• Submitted to
Department of
English.

2. Introduction
Aravind Adiga’s The
White Tiger, Which
was awarded the Man
Booker Prize in 2008.
As Michael Portillo
commented the novel
“ shocked and
entertained in equal
measure.’’

3. Poor-Rich divide in The
Aravind Adiga’The White
Tiger
• Culmination of the Master-Servant
relationship
• Balram Halwai as a modern Indian
hero.
• Breaks the Rooster coop
• The dream of rich and poor

4. Balram- As the White Tiger
• > Balram is
the White tiger
of the book’s
title.
• >Gayatri
Spivak’s
concept of
Subaltern.

5. Conclusion
 The novel is an excellent
social commentary on the
poor-rich divide in India.
Balram represents the
downtrodden sections of our
society juxtaposed against the
rich.