The story opens with our main character as a successful businessman in Bangalore. In this epistolary novel, Munna writes down his life story in the form of a long letter addressed to “his excellency”, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao who is poised to visit India to learn the secrets of its rising entrepreneurship. I heeded her advice and read this darkly humorous thriller which did not disappoint.īalram Halwai aka Munna is our pithy protagonist, a poor boy who hails from the village of Laxmangarh in the district of Gaya. I watched the compelling movie, and I was discussing it earnestly with my high school-friend Deepanita Singh, an avid reader who told me that I should read the riveting novel as the screen adaptation was merely an “ insipid and watered-down version of what could have been!”Īccording to her, the “ book is powerful and packs a punch” as “it is a brilliant and brutal satire on the neo liberal India of 2008”. There has been a resurgence of interest in Aravind Adiga’s book The White Tiger as Netflix recently released a movie of the same name based on this 2008 Booker prize-winning exemplary work of fiction.
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