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‘We are the product of our choices but the last wrong decision don’t need to define your life ahead. When the former part plays through the book, the latter is what is contradictory. The last wrong, perhaps, his right decision is the one which turned him into a successful entrepreneur.
Referring himself as a ‘half-baked product’ and a person from
the Dark side of the World, he doesn’t restrain himself from the light. Working
through his tattered clothes, Balram serves tea, breaks coal and does all local
job until he realizes it wasn’t enough. Jumping to a driving job, he pleads and
makes his way to his enemy’s house. Treating him as a family man and being paid
well, it all tumbles down until his masters betray him. Even though the act
itself turned useless, that one act was the bulb for Balram to escape the cage.
Foraging and cheating his masters, he makes his own money until he realizes his
position and the luxuries he had flaunt to his family. Gnawing on the steel
bars of the cage, he utilizes whatever he had heard, learnt and imposed on
himself to slay his own master, thereby escaping the rigged system! But one
thing made him stop for a second before he had his own accomplice next to him. Escaping
the city, guilt and the old life, it wasn’t easy but no journeys are easy that
way. His heart swells with guilt at times under the customized chandelier yet
he doesn’t step from being the animal who is born once in every generation.
The White Tiger is more than a man’s successful journey as it
dissects into the poverty and heart triggering lines which sticks onto us. It
makes us realize what we are and what we need to aim for to become another
‘White Tiger’. The descriptions of tactics, subtlety and the real frame works
makes the book more attractive enough to win the Booker Prize!
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