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Arvind Adiga’s 2008 Booker prize-winning book “The white tiger” may not be remembered in the long run for its flowery prose or style, but it will certainly be appreciated for its hard-hitting tale about Indian society in the twenty-first century. When I read the book many years ago, I remember finishing it in less than five hours — a rarity for a Booker prize-winning work, which is usually dense and multi-layered. But “The White Tiger” in contrast was a breezy read. The pages turned with effortless ease, the language was uncomplicated, and the voice of Balram Halwai, the first-person narrator and the hero of the tale floats through the book, hypnotically recounting his life’s journey from a poverty-stricken, slavery ridden rural India, to an Indian metropolis, and becoming an entrepreneur and a master of his destiny. One would find the story surreal in certain places, exaggerated in a few episodes, but the overall narrative flows with rapid pace, a sure pen, and tremendous convictio