Comments on: White Tigers and Black Hearts

By: Nimisha (author)

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By: Nimisha

Nimisha — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:21:56 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Vikram. I did check out the other review. It was very interesting to read, but I do not fully agree with the author on all his views.
As readers, we are all entitled to our own interpretations and thoughts. The author of that review saw his caste and his own identity in the protagonist, whereas I saw what the lives of the poorer people in India were like.
‘The White Tiger’ is a work of fiction. Fiction is based on reality, but is not a biography. I think the name of the book itself is an example of what one man did, the kind of man who is rare, like a white tiger. It is not a generalization or a recommendation on how to become powerful or commit murder.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:50:13 +0000

I loved this review!

Just like the book, your review has an undertone of sarcasm…almost a dark on at times..

Great job, Nimisha!

By: Vikram

Vikram — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:32:35 +0000

Nimisha, I would like it if you read this review by a Dalit blogger himself, while you may not like the tone of his writing, please understand that if a person has had his own life defined in casteist terms, he/she is likely to see the oppressors (i.e. upper caste Hindus) in those terms.

Unfortunately you have made the same mistake in your review that Adiga has made in his book. You have failed to recognize the identity of the Dalits. Like Slumdog Millionaire this book is not going to open any eyes, because they are not shut, they are blinded. Blinded by a Bollywood which middle class (mostly upper caste Hindu) India cannot let go off, blinded by a denial of the reality of caste and blinded by a desire to be a ‘world-power’.

So the politicians, bureaucrats etc. are all easy scape goats, but if you pause and think for a moment that 60 years ago millions would simply die in famine and literally no one was educated, they havent done a bad job (except in the BIMARU states due to caste rivalries). Its just that they and the ‘bottom of the social order’ do not subscribe to the same vision of India as upper caste middle class India does. Lets hope one day a Brahmin can have the vision to write a book on that.

By: neon

neon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:31:37 +0000

Great review! I had never bothered to wonder about the psyche of the driver, the cook, the servant who are part of most affluent Indian households and this book really made me think.