The White Tiger (2008) is Aravind Adiga’s first novel, for which he got Booker Prize. It depicts the most heartrending picture of imbalances in Indian society. Adiga depicts both the downtrodden, unpleasant deprived places like Laxmangarh and highly developed places like Gurgaon and Bangalore. As usual the marginal are kept at the ridge or periphery of the power centre. They always suffer for their daily bread and butter. In present context marginality is used to analyse socio-cultural, political, economic spheres, where deprived people struggle to gain access to resources and full participation in social life. Marginalized people are usually discriminated, ignored and often suppressed on the basis of race, gender, culture, religion, ethnicity, occupation, education and economy by the mainstream. This order results in the paralysis of one side of the society as Balram, his family and community is paralysed in The White Tiger. So throughout the novel, these marginal people hunt for their identity, social value and economic balance. Through this novel the paralysed part of the society is shown struggling for the socioeconomic equality. Only a few daring, risk taking and sharp minded individuals like Balram are able to break the vicious cycle of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and social marginalization.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
