Friday, February 13, 2009
Read "The White Tiger"
I found Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger unputdownable. It is an excellent novel, very well crafted, and it is completely on the side of the vision libertarians have for India. To be sure, it is totally anti-socialist, and it portrays the horrors of village life with a brutal realism. It also shows how the Indian city is a hell-hole. It showers scorn on the village school and the schoolteacher. It pokes fun at the Indian police. It also sticks its middle finger out at Indian "democracy." I recommend it to one and all.
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I had this book with me for a long time but had not read it. After your recommendation started reading it and couldn't put it down. completed it within a single night! Arvind has vividly described the horror of Indian socialist state and the brutality of Gandhi's village republic.
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