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| Article Name : | | | SUBALTERN SPEAKS IN ARVIND ADIGA’S, “THE WHITE TIGER” | | Author Name : | | | Shripad A. Samant | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5692 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | 'The First Night’, ‘The Second Night’, so on and so forth are the chapters of Arvind Adiga’s, “The White Tiger”. It is reminiscent of “One Thousand and One Nights” or the “Arabian Nights”. In the “One Thousand and One Nights” too like in Adiga’s “The White Tiger” a subaltern grabs an opportunity and begins to speak. Scheherazade too would have been a voiceless victim of King Shahryar’s tyranny had she not begun to speak. Similarly in “The White Tiger”, Munna alias Balram Halwai uses the pretext of the Chinese Premier’s arrival in ‘Banglore’ and writes letters to him for seven consecutive nights, elucidating the workings of the real India. He believes that the Chinese Premier like any other dignitary will be met with ‘namastes’ by Indian ministers, told about the moral and traditional nature of India and finally the grand success story of the nation as a ‘vibrant’ democracy shall be eulogised. Munna believes none of this is true and wishes to introduce the Chinese Premier to the different India’s that lie within the subaltern history or “history told from below”(Gramsci 233). | | Keywords : | | |
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