The journey of Balram Halwai, son of a rickshaw puller, from being a help in a tea shop, to being a driver, then a murderer and finally an entrepreneur.
It talks about two Indias.
One India faces the light with sky scrapers, posh malls and with advanced technologies, a perfect urban life. The other India where the rich and fertile paddy fields along the great rivers depending on agriculture are still in darkness with defunct electricity poles, open sewage, stale food products and deprived of basic amenities.
Even in 21st century globalization has failed to penetrate these villages. People live here in ignorance and total darkness.
Balram moves out of the village to the city. But the corrupt city and the agony of being a servant tormented by employers makes this innocent lad filled with values to choose the law of the jungle –“Survival of the fittest” route.
The city life in Delhi and the corrupt politicians are well captured. How he becomes self- centered and takes a crooked route to success forms the rest of the story.
A racy novel, it won the Man Booker Prize 2008 for the debutant novelist Aravind Adiga. Well written; must read.
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