ARAVIND ADIGA’S SOCIAL ASPECTS IN SELECT NOVELS – A STUDY

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ARAVIND ADIGA’S SOCIAL ASPECTS IN SELECT NOVELS – A STUDY

Abstract

In post-modern Indian English literature, Arvind Adiga is one the greatest novelists and authors who depict the root of Indian, known as Indian divers culture including multiculturalism, counter-culture, cross-culture, youth culture etc. In the selected fiction such as The White Tiger and Between the Assassination, Arvind Adiga has depicted the real pictures and the condition of socio-cultural aspects through various characters. These studies find out the socio-cultural and present the relevant to socio-cultural aspects in his selected fiction. The entire fiction focuses on the socio-cultural conflict and social status through humour and Irony. There is a very vast gap between rich and poor, the ruling class and the working class, suppressive and suppressed. Some poor and working-class people who are restless to change the society directly oppose the norms and shackles of suppressive. Often they are failed but sometimes they are succeeded so this whole process is known as a protest. Often the protagonist of the novel protests against social boundaries and taboos and the whole story revolves around his story. Arvind Adiga is famous for his Booker Prize-winning book The White Tiger. He has written two other novels and a short story collection Between the Assassinations. The study particularly focuses on Arvind Adiga’s novels The White Tiger
KEYWORDS : political tensions, suppressive, socio-cultural, social, multiculturalism, novel protests.