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The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore.His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, [6] [7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.
James White (7 April 1928 – 23 August 1999) was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada.
A poor young man in India who longs for a life where the grass is greener. “The White Tiger” taps engagingly into the rags-to-riches, Horatio-Alger-on-the-Ganges mythology that made “Slumdog ...
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James Ramsey Ullman (August 21, 1907 – June 20, 1971) was an American writer and mountaineer. [1] He was born in New York City . He was not a "high end" climber, but his writing made him an honorary member of that circle.
Bestselling author James Patterson's latest book, a biography of golfer Tiger Woods, was released July 15. ... James Patterson's new biography of Tiger Woods is not the first to profile the ...
Grambling's White Tiger (also released as White Tiger in Europe) is a 1981 TV movie [2] about the true story of Jim Gregory (played by Caitlyn Jenner, credited as Bruce Jenner) the first white quarterback of the Grambling Tigers at Grambling College, a historically black college, in 1968. The movie covers Gregory's freshman year.