He presents the struggle and the ultimate resistance of the underprivileged class through the character of Balram. Through the story of Balram in the novel, Adiga offers a space to the marginalized people whose voice often gets silenced. Balram serves as the mouthpiece of the marginalized people who have never been allowed to speak. Through the protagonist of the novel, Balram Halwai, Adiga has given a loud voice to the ignored and muffled voices of subalterns indicating that the unheard lower class of India now wish to get emancipation from the age-old traps of class and caste in Indian socio-economic fabric. He has tried to bring home the idea that in the story of India’s progress, role of the underclass or marginalized is very important. Aravind Adiga, a great exponent of Indian writing in English, had successfully highlighted the marginalized and subaltern issue in his very first novel The White Tiger (2008).
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