Changing India: An Overview From Select Novels Of Aravind Adiga

Abstract

Aravind Adiga provides the concept of the day-to-day life of the ordinary people through his novels with a sympathetic understanding of the variety of suffering a poor man has to undergo. The novels of Adiga mainly deal with the theme of poverty, bereavement and other everyday adversities. Adiga shows an accurate picture of corruption prevailing in Indian society. This paper examines the way Aravind Adiga's novels act as a harsh critique of the notion of the "New India," which is still plagued with a system of servitude and rampant political, economic, and social corruption. The select novels of Adiga throw light on the social, economic, and cultural collision of globalization on the poor of India, particularly in terms of its role in widening the gap between the upper and lower classes. It argues that both globalization and the system of servitude have contributed to creating two facets in India.