It's always hard to review books which has been awarded or acclaimed by critics. The problem with such books is, it has appealed a good number of intellectual minds to be able to provide any negative commentary.
However, to me "The White Tiger" looked like just another novel. Not something that will need any special recognition. From rickshaw puller's son destined to work as a laborer to reach to the levels of a budding entrepreneur definitely adds the "Slumdog Millionaire" element to it. I sometimes find it repulsive when authors compare various country's political and social plight in front of foreign nationals. Addressing the whole of Indian issues to the Chinese premier definitely brought out a negative element in the book. In the whole India Shining era some shortcuts to success has become reality but to claim that it exposes the underbelly of the IT boom in the sillicon city of India is a gross overstatement made by some critics.
Should one read the book?
The writing style is impeccable. The book can be read in just one sitting. You will find it a quasi-Slumdog Millionaire in some sense.
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