How close to reality is Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger?

White Tiger is primarily a work of imagination. Aravind Adiga, author of White Tiger never lived the life of rural poverty of his hero Balram. Adiga’s father was a doctor and his grandfather was the chairman of a bank. read more

The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. read more