چکیده (انگلیسی):

The image of modern India hadacquired such media hypeand its success stories
started receivingso much massive attention that the sufferings of the vast majority
of the poor both in the rural and urban India remained unheard in the din. The
economic, scientific and technologicalboom in India had attained the new
denomination of the grand narratives of the country. This image of a successful
India whitewashes the sufferings of the poor and the socio-economic problems that
challenge the growth and development of the nation. Aravind Adiga wrote his Man
Booker Prize winning debut novel The White Tiger in 2008 to question such popular
image of a modern India. He wanted to re-inscribe the imagination of the present
generation about the sordid deprivation of the 99.9 percent of the people so that the
research scholars, political leaders and policy makers get new directions to
address.This article has explicated how the landlordism, poverty, ill-equipped
education system, poor health facilities, corruption in government agencies and
moral degeneration have been aggravating the sufferings of the poor and
decelerating the development of the nation.