Results tagged “Aravind Adiga” from Journal Live - Journal Culture Central

Book groups are all about the questions other people ask and just because we are virtual it seems a shame to miss out! So here are a few things to think about when you've read White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, May's Book of the Month.

On the eve of a state visit to India by the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabo, Balram Halwai, successful businessman and owner of a mini-cab firm, sits down to write him a series of letters. The purported aim of the Prime Minister's trip is investigate the legendary Indian entrepreneurial spirit and how it can be encouraged in China, and Balram is worried that that this opportunity might be wasted if he speaks only to dignitaries. He wants to tell him how an Indian entrepreneur is really born. After all he has been there....