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The author addresses the problems of the life of Munna, a boy belonging to the rural suburb of Gurgaon. His plight can be understood by the fact that when he enters school and the teacher asks for his name, he replies that he doesn't have a name and that his family doesn't have time to name him. The teacher names him Balram, hence this name continues throughout the book.
The author explains, with immaculate use of local vocabulary, what it was like for Balram to grow up in the village. It is common knowledge that feudalism is dominant in rural india, and the author goes at length to describe the oppression of being a commoner and not a lord. Hereon, Balram is forced to leave behind his roots at a young age and migrates to the city with his brother. The author's style depicts the shrewdness of such deprived people, hidden from the view of an urban citizen at many a times. One is forced to believe that the walls of pawn shops and tea stalls indeed have ears, as the chotas of the shop eavesdrop on the conversations of these customers. Balram gets inspiration for a job on one such occasion, and ends up being a driver, entering a master-servant relationship.
Balram is a servant of a member of New Delhi, Mr.Ashok. Ashok has recently returned from USA, with Pinky madam as his wife and is, obviously, a resident of New Delhi. The author goes at length to elaborate the raw emotions of jealousy, fear and that constant nagging of being reprimanded by the master. Balram encounters every peculiar experience known to man in his career as a driver and each experience polishes his personality and strengthens his belief that one day even he would be the proud owner of a Honda City and be allowed the privilege to enter the shining malls of New Delhi.
The unique fact about the book is the fact that it is basically a series of letters addressed to the premier of Japan of that time, Ven Jiyabao, from a humble citizen. Balram writes the email prior to the premier's visit, making the guest aware of the fact that India is not what the shiny pamphlet portrays it to be. Balram emails him as an entrepreneur and indeed he is. The book accounts for his transition from a driver to an entrepreneur in the most gripping way possible.
Aravind Adiga has done a remarkable job, depicting the phlegm of life being a low-caste Hindu. The barren realities of corruption, the crude treatment of servants. Beautiful, simply beautiful. Makes you believe that life is handed to you in a rusted plate, you have to polish it by crook or by book to see the steel beneath. Aravind Adiga's debut novel has received positive reviews with The Independent saying, "The truth, as it begins to emerge, is as shocking as it is fantastic. It's a rich subject, and Adiga mines all its darkly comic possibilities. Halwai's voice - wised-up, mordant, sardonic, self-mocking and utterly without illusions - is as compelling as it is persuasive, and one of the triumphs of the book."
The author explains, with immaculate use of local vocabulary, what it was like for Balram to grow up in the village. It is common knowledge that feudalism is dominant in rural india, and the author goes at length to describe the oppression of being a commoner and not a lord. Hereon, Balram is forced to leave behind his roots at a young age and migrates to the city with his brother. The author's style depicts the shrewdness of such deprived people, hidden from the view of an urban citizen at many a times. One is forced to believe that the walls of pawn shops and tea stalls indeed have ears, as the chotas of the shop eavesdrop on the conversations of these customers. Balram gets inspiration for a job on one such occasion, and ends up being a driver, entering a master-servant relationship.
Balram is a servant of a member of New Delhi, Mr.Ashok. Ashok has recently returned from USA, with Pinky madam as his wife and is, obviously, a resident of New Delhi. The author goes at length to elaborate the raw emotions of jealousy, fear and that constant nagging of being reprimanded by the master. Balram encounters every peculiar experience known to man in his career as a driver and each experience polishes his personality and strengthens his belief that one day even he would be the proud owner of a Honda City and be allowed the privilege to enter the shining malls of New Delhi.
The unique fact about the book is the fact that it is basically a series of letters addressed to the premier of Japan of that time, Ven Jiyabao, from a humble citizen. Balram writes the email prior to the premier's visit, making the guest aware of the fact that India is not what the shiny pamphlet portrays it to be. Balram emails him as an entrepreneur and indeed he is. The book accounts for his transition from a driver to an entrepreneur in the most gripping way possible.
Aravind Adiga has done a remarkable job, depicting the phlegm of life being a low-caste Hindu. The barren realities of corruption, the crude treatment of servants. Beautiful, simply beautiful. Makes you believe that life is handed to you in a rusted plate, you have to polish it by crook or by book to see the steel beneath. Aravind Adiga's debut novel has received positive reviews with The Independent saying, "The truth, as it begins to emerge, is as shocking as it is fantastic. It's a rich subject, and Adiga mines all its darkly comic possibilities. Halwai's voice - wised-up, mordant, sardonic, self-mocking and utterly without illusions - is as compelling as it is persuasive, and one of the triumphs of the book."
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