Social Hypocrisy And Individualism: A View Of Modern India From The Novels Of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger And Between The Assassinations

Abstract

Aravind Adiga, the renowned Indo-Australian novelist of Post-Colonial Indian English literature, depicts the Indian diverse culture to a great extent in his own writing style. He depicts the socio-economic reality of society in his novels and short stories. He conveys a collective message to the people of India and proposes to modern Indian society. He is indisputably the greatest artist of Indian Writing in English. Adiga’s first novel, The White Tiger, deals with the desolation of the trodden and demoralised person and his struggle for a better life. His subsequent novels are almost a deviation from the same theme. Adiga’s Between the Assassinations has a typical element that deals with the struggle of the poor people in India against the conventional social order, poverty, social and religious hypocrisy among youth and starving millions of Indian people. Adiga has taken the central theme of his novels from authentic life, so his novels are nothing but social realism. The present paper is an endeavour to emphasise how social hypocrisy and individualism are reflected in Adiga’s novels.