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Old 14-Oct-2008, 23:57
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Default Re: Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

I just finshed it and quite liked it.Not has a great read but has a decent passtime.I won't remenber much of it in few week but it was nice to read an Indian novel where the the guy did take revenge againts dominant cast.
After reading Mistry,A fine balance,indiscutably a better book,White tiger come has the rebelion of a lower cast,something very,very rare in India litarature.
There is so much acceptance,fatalism,in the cast systeme,so many books where entire famillies,villages are starves,beaten and abused with a polite tolerance for injustice that for once,to read of a guy taking the spet(at the cost of his clan slauter)to kill the master,I come as a relief.I could not believe he did it.It's like a catholique book talking freely about sex.
Just for that,and the novelty of it,the book was worth reading.
plus one for the murder
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