Thinking Activity - The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga

The white tiger

The white tiger novel written by Indian author  " Aravind Adiga". It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year.the character Balram Halwai is protagonist of the novel. The novel stire on the Indian people and the culture. This blog is part of the thinking activity.
# About Author

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga, both of whom hailed from Mangalore. His paternal grandfather was the late K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank,[6][7] and a maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.[8]

Adiga grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School, then at St. Aloysius College, where he completed his SSLC in 1990 and secured the first place in his state in SSLC (his elder brother, Anand, had placed second in SSLC and first in PUC in the state).[7][9]

After emigrating to Sydney, Australia, with his family, Aravind studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School. He later studied English literature at Columbia College of Columbia University, in New York city, under Simon Schama and graduated as salutatorian in 1997.[10] He also studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where one of his tutors was Hermione Lee.

# How far do you agree with the India.      represented in the novel The White Tiger?
 I agree with the novel represented the India. In this novel we see the culture of the India and the people who are the religious. How people live in the India. It also reflects the poor India. As we see a movie "Slumdog Millionaire" in this movie all the things describe and the most part is the is India's biggest poor area Dharavi. This novel  stire on poor people, uneducated, driver,  Pulled rickshaw,  Village life, landlords and the religious people. How people believe in the religious and the rumor. So this novel reflect the India.

#Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'
Yes, the  Balram's story is the archetype story   of some percentage. The Balram doing many things which are the bed and good. He take both path good or bad. Some when he take make of Ashok it was bed way. Like a movie Slumdog Millionaire How the Jamal become reach. He know the answer because of the every question connect his past moments of the life. But we see the how rich people think about the poor people. So the Balram's story connect the archetype.

# What does writer by saying that something are better said in English Language ?
English language is helpful to stire on the people. English language is simple, peaceful and the adorable Language. In English language the effects is less because Everyone not understand properly. If anyone speak in English and stire people can't understand. If this novel written in Gujarati in India government put banned on ththe novel. In English this all things people except don't believe in that the thing or meaning is good or bad. The effect of English language is different in people's mind. In English not more affect then Gujarati.

#List of questions asked in the film. If you have to replace or add a few questions, which questions would you like to add. Remember, questions shall be in-tune with the screenplay of the film?  

1.Who was the star of the 1973 hit film "Zanjeer"?

 A. Anil Kapoor
 B. Amitabh Bachchan
 C. Shahrukh Khan
 D. Madhur Mittal


2. picture of three lions is seen in the national emblem of India. What is written underneath it?

 A. The truth alone triumphs

 B. Lies alone triumph

 C. Money alone triumphs

 D. Fashion alone triumphs

3.In depictions of God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?

A. A bow and arrow

 B. A sword

 C. A flower

 D. A child

4. The song "Darshan Do Ghanshyam" was written by which famous Indian poet, according to the movie?

 A. Surdas

 B. Tulsidas

 C. Kabeer

 D. Mirabai

5. On an American $100 bill, there is a portrait of which American statesman?


 A. George Washington

 B. Benjamin Franklin

 C. Franklin Roosevelt

 D. Abraham Lincoln

6. Who invented the first commercially-successful revolver?


 A. Samuel Colt

 B. Daniel Wesson

 C. Oliver Winchester

 D. Thomas Edison

7. Cambridge Circus is in which U.K. city?

 A. Oxford

 B. London

 C. Cambridge

 D. Leeds

8. Which cricketer has scored the most first-class centuries?

 A. Jimmy Bridges

 B. Ricky Ponting

 C. Jack Hobbs

 D. Sachin Tendulkar

9.In Alexander Dumas' book "The Three Musketeers", two of the musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What is the name of the third Musketeer?

A. Planchet

B. Cardinal Richelieu

C. Aramis

D. D'Artagnan

10. While the police inspector was questioning Jamal's knowledge, he asked Jamal whose picture was on the Indian 1000-rupee note, and then showed him when Jamal claimed not to know. Whose picture was it?

 A. Mohandas Gandhi

 B. Muhammad Jinnah

 C. Jawaharlal Nehru

 D. Gopal Gokhale