Hurray!!! yet another booker for India!!Arvind adiga wins the Man booker prize 2008 for "The white tiger".
Indeed a moment of joy and pride for India.Havent yet read the book perhaps will do it soon...but from what I can gather the book exposes the dark side of India.But is it right on the part of Indian authors to cash on the dark side of India?Isnt it like demeaning India before the world? And to top it all it is a work of fiction if not to uplift the image but to disparage it even further.
India will be construed by its readers as a country with invincible poverty,ever looming illiteracy,esurient beings,abandoned kids,grubby streets,trifling governance,nepotism,larceny and ofcourse as the land of corruption.
Iam sure my perception is not largely cogent since a book is just a piece of art!but it does leave an impact on the minds of the readers... So should we celebrate the booker??
8 comments:
oh well-ive read the 1st 40 pages of the book,and the kind of effect those 40 pages had one me-now,im trying to find someone who can sponsor the expenses of the book for me.... :D
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looking forward to laying my hands on a copy for myself!!
hmmmm....
i havent read the book either
though id like to
frm wat u've said
i think ur right
may b u sld write a book uplifting india's image! :) :P
wel..i haven got hold of the book yet..but let me kno..is it wrong4ppl to point out wats wrong wit the system..we gotta no n think bout it rather den jus buyin n praisin the author saying.its from o booker..!!
@shashank
perhaps its better to rectify than point out...but ta book is about a shocking tale on poverty....just to add on..
the author was brought up in australia..educated in england
and is cashing on the plight of India!!!!
Didn't you look at my DP and say its a hi-fi street from New York and the reason you thought so was because the street looked clean? :)
All the DP had was a bench and a pole.
@roobs
well..is cashing in,the rite word??i stil wouldn give in..an indian author is famous.---> topic writn is bout indian poverty which is da cruelest reality-- mayb readers get TOUCHED by the way he's writn it n want to change things the way they are..!!
@shashank
ofcourse its a cruel reality n its trite n v all hav known it since ages...v don need some australian brought up to tell us tat....instead he shud come down dwell here n try n help n then perhaps write a book abt ta gruesome reality!!!!
@iceman
tats ta kinda impact ta review has left on me!!!
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