In Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel, The White Tiger, Balram Halwai claws his way from darkness to light, serving satire as sharp as his entrepreneurial instincts. Adiga’s India is raw, roaring, and unapologetically corrupt – a state of jungle law, where only cunning predators survive. Balram’s journey from teashop boy to businessman is a rags-to-riches journey one morally murky decision at a time.
Painting: Today I drew a line drawing of a tiger
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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