Batric Vinnarasi

ASSIGNMENT

INDIAN WRITING

IN ENGLISH

THE WHITE TIGER

                                                                            

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                                                V.T.Batric Vinnarasi

                                                Reg.No.170461

                                                I M.A.English (Aided)

THE ROLE OF CORRUPTION IN INDIA HOW IT IS INCOOPERATE THE WHITE TIGER

The Role of Corruption in India

Corruption is a form of dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority often to acquire personal benefits. In India, Corruption is a major issue that block the growth of our country. It affects the Indian financial and economic system. Corruption is usual everywhere, from the higher officials to the peons. Further corruption has become something respectable in India, because respectable people are involved in it. The main theme in The White Tiger is corruption.

The Corruption is In Cooperate in the Novel

        In Aravind Adiga’s, novel "The White Tiger", he, highlights the corruption which is plaguing in every corner of India and has been crippling the country. Balram Halwai, is the protagonist of the novel. Throughout his narrative, the writer constantly exposes his voice throughBalram about each and every aspects of government that are thoroughly corrupted.In this novel, Balram escapes from the darkness of life and enter into the corrupt system of life to improve his status in this society. In the novel the writer points out

“The tale of how I was corrupted from a sweet, innocent village fool into a citified fellow full of debauchery, depravity, and wickedness."

Balram is born in the village of Laxmangarh and is raised in a large, poor family from the Halwai caste, a caste that abouthis success as a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore. The entire novel is narrated through a collection of letters. In the novel, Balram escape from the darkness of life to improve his status in the society.

        Balram’s mind is corrupted from his childhood days because the education system is corrupted. It is a painful irony that the teachers exploit the students by stealing the students’ foods and they do not educate literacy to them. The school teacher of Balram had not received salary for nearly six months. So they corrupt the educational system by teaching nothing to the students until the pay check has arrived. But no one blame the school teacher for doing this. The writer has portrayed a very realistic picture of corruption in the government hospitals. Balram’s father is a rickshaw puller. He suffers from Tuberculosis.When he is taken to the hospital, there is no doctor in the hospital. Balram corruptsthe ward boy by giving him ten rupees and he informs him that the doctor might come in the evening. As Balram asks a person who is beside him why isn’t a doctor here uncle, the man replied, there is a government medical superintendent who’s meant to check that doctors visit village hospitals like this, now each time this post falls vacant. The great socialist lets all the big doctors know that he’s having an open auction for the post. Thus the corrupted system in the hospitals and ignorance of the doctors leads to the death of his father.

        Politicians and landowners make money out of every bit and the hospitals are no exceptions. Pleasing the landlords and the politicians is a difficult task. When Balram moves to the city of Dhanbad to work as a chauffeur, he is appointed as a driver borrowed by the Stork for his two sons. Balram further exposes the corrupt to the evils of corruption in politics. The Stork’s family is involved in a business dealing in the coal industry and regularly corrupts him to ensure their success. Because of these political manipulation, Ashok and his wife Pinky decides to go to Delhi for three months.

        When Pinky it’s a child in drank and drive, Balram isforced to admit the crime. He was shocked by this. But the Stork’s family settles the issue by corrupting the police.  Balram’s political consciousness grows more intense and his anger towards the upper class get to its peak. When Ashok and Pinky are divorced, Ashok becomes depressed and continues his relationship with his ex-lover Uma.

 Balram plans to murder his own master. He looses his moral consciousness and make a weapon from a broken whiskey bottle and rams it into Ashok’s head and cuts him in the neck. Then he steels the red bag with the money and escapes with Dharam to Bangalore.

        Balram makes himself as a successful business person. He realizes, how money dominates the world. He also becomes conscious that humanity fails, where money profits.

Aravind Adiga, in this novel presents the issue with humour and irony which keeps the reader to move further. The author shows how the Indian society is corrupted. Corruption is found everywhere in all aspects including marriages, politics, police, religion,etc. Corruption has been deeply spread in the Indian society. Thus “The White Tiger” is a brutal judgment of India against its exposure to corruption and exploitation.