Aravind Adiga

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Aravind Adiga is an Indian author and a journalist. In 2008, his first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction.Aravind Adiga did his initial schooling at Canara High School and St. Aloysius College, Mangalore. When Adiga was 15 years old his mother died of cancer. After his mothers death, his father emigrated to Australia in August 1990 along with his family. At James Ruse Agricultural High School, Australia, Aravind continued his further education. Later, he went on to Columbia University, New York, to study English literature and graduated in 1997. Simon Schama was his tutor for English literature at Columbia University. Soon after completing his graduation, he joined Magdalen College, Oxford, for M.Phil and at Oxford, Hermione Lee was his tutor. Hermione Lee was the president of Wolfson College at Oxford. Aravind in his college days.In 1990, he completed SSLC (Senior Secondary Leave Certificate) and was ranked first in Mangalore, India. In the PUC he also got the first rank in the state.After completing his studies at Oxford, Aravind Adiga began working at the Financial Times as a financial journalist while pursuing his internship. During his working period in Financial Times, he covered the stock market and investment protocols as a journalist. During this period, he also interviewed Donald Trump. Later, some of his articles were also published in Money (magazine).He gave a review on the book Oscar and Lucinda written by Peter Carey in 1988, and this review was displayed in The Second Circle (an online literary review). [5]Wayback Machine.Subsequently, he worked as a South Asia correspondent for three years at Time Magazine. Soon, he started working as a freelancer and during this period, he wrote his first novel The White Tiger..In 2008, he won the Man Booker prize for his novel The White Tiger. After Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai, he became the fourth Indian author to win the Man Booker prize for his novel. V. S. Naipaul is also on this list to receive the Man Booker prize, but he was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and is of Indian ethnicity.In 2009, after winning the prize, Adiga published Between the Assassinations, a set of linked short stories.The novel The White Tiger depicted the dissimilarities in a modern global economy and the rise of India. Balram is the leading character of the novel who was a very poor rural man of India. In the novel, Adiga narrated, Criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens of the 19th century helped England and France become better societies. Aravind Adiga with his book The White Tiger.In an interview related to his novel The White Tiger, he spoke about the incorporations of the book. He explained, At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. In India, there has never been strong central political control, which is probably why the family is still so important. If youre rude to your mother in India, its a crime as bad as stealing would be here. India and China are too powerful to be controlled by the West anymore. Weve got to get beyond that as Indians and take responsibility for what is holding us back..