[kpjayan]

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The White Tiger is an appalling regression. Just when they thought they had finally shed the old image of India as a land of poverty, cows and snakecharmers and started being respected as a hi-tech, prosperous nation, along comes Adiga to, as it were, rub their noses in the dirt again
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There was similar 'complaints' about Satyajit Ray and other neo-realistic film makers as they are selling the image of poor India to the world.

The main issue I think is about the audience the writer has in mind. Most of the new writers emerging from India ( or Indian Origin) have the wider English Speaking readers in mind and not the native people. Hence, the outcome of their fiction is to satisfy this readers, not necessarily to write about the real India. However, this issue does not arise in the local language fiction ( like Bengali , Malayalam , Kannada et al) , and hence they are much closure to the reality.