“The Last and The First” - Toral Gajarawala

“The Last and The First” is an article written by (Gajarawala)on the novel “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga.      

           “The White Tiger” is criticized for lack of realism. As the writer describes the Indian poverty in the novel it is not as much as subscription. Balram's total detachment from his family, his wicked grandmother, and the concomitant constraints of caste, thus has sinister implications: it problematic the allegorical reading that is favored when it comes to poverty.
   
     Generally the main character in the novel is good person, anti-hero or the savior of people. While in “The White Tiger” it is not so, main character is a murderer called "Balram Halwai". There is description of his life story in the novel. How he becomes murderer? With some social reasons in which people are suffering as Balram. It is satire on the life of great people who uplifted from poor person to rich person. He murdered his own master at the end.

                 So, after all we can see that at the end of the novel, Halwai is not properly "last", neither in the Darkness, nor in the Light, where he benefits well from his liberal Master.

Works Cited

Gajarawala, Toral. "The Last and the First." Economic & Political Weekly 44 (2009): 21 to 23.