The White Tiger

I normally don't read non -fiction books. I thought white tiger was a non fiction novel because it won the booker prize in 2009. And man was i mistaken. I found white tiger to a page turner you simply can't put down. The book is small with 193 pages it can be finished in a single read. The book tells the story of Balram Halwai and how he became entrepreneur from a common youth in a village. Sometimes i felt that book won booker prizer simply because like slumdog millionaire it exposed the indian poor. Surely i felt that book exaggerated the disparities in indian society at several places. But this is what it is, it is a work of fiction. And i think that story is not completely untrue at all. After reading the book i felt that i understood why there is so wide disparity in treatments to our servants at my home. Though we don't belong to a zameendar or any such caste that oppresses people. Both my maternal and paternal grandfather had made it big in their times. My paternal grandfather rose to the highest post of engineering in Bihar. While my maternal grandfather rose to become commissioner of sales tax in almost 10 districts of Bihar. But the next generation in my family had completely different approach to things.