In both ‘The White Tiger’ and ‘The Colour Purple’ the protagonists face many forms of external oppression as they battle their own internalised inferiority. Both Alice Walker and Aravind Adiga use the epistolary form to convey this, Walker suggests this format is an outlet for...
Indian writing in English is a magnificent approach of modern Indian Culture. Compared to vernacular literature, Indian Writing in English has a ample range of incarnated Indian culture and the soul of Indianness across the globe. Indian Authors like Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, Raja Rao,...
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) was the Man-Booker Prize-winning first novel. It is written in an epistolary style. The style of the story is in first-person narrative style. The contemporary Indian English literature captures the threat of violence. The narrator discloses his personal history...
Postcolonial literature deals with various aspects including class differences and the representation of the subaltern or the voiceless. Lack of opportunities, deprivation of basic necessities, loneliness in a crowded world, alienation in one’s own country, subordination at all levels and being silent and resigned to...
This novel is an attempt to capture Indianness in a most profound manner, covering substantial as well as the basic flaws that drive the Indian Social and cultural system. It, through the frivolous and trivial attitude of the protagonist, Balram Halwai who is later revealed...
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