Aravind Adiga does not depict the story of a Dream or a darkly India, but he simply describes the current Indian life with the particular perspective of a village boy, Balram Halwai.
Through the story of Balram who works for a rich landlord, Aravind examines India’s religion, caste, traditions, corruption and poverty. He describes a country where ritualism covers humanism, frill of colourful and enthusiast avenues to explore and to escape.
Indeed, escaping from his root condition is the critical objective of Balram. Following the great poet Iqbal who was convinced that painting could be the surefire way to liberate poor people, Balram will transcend his condition to become a successful entrepreneur, setting his own taxi service up. He tries to embrace his condition, in vain…The only way is to create his own way.
Aravind performs an aggressive, concise and rude phrasing to demonstrate the rising of his protagonist, who is experiencing a spiritual quest for freedom, overcoming the tardiness and immobilism of India and that limited his family in the past. The final solution is the highest goal to live and prefigures the necessity of action to exist.
Balram leverages his anger to meet his awakening human consciousness and thus to understand his purpose, beyond the drastic and dark social rules.
And what about yourself ? Are you ready to leverage your Anger to explore and find out your true talent ?
To go beyond the stars: read and analyse the book, Slumdom Millionaire from Vikas Swarup. Embracing a humourous and candid style, the author has analogue objective: introducing the true India to evoke our human condition and galvanizing the overarching exploration of who we are.
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