Aravind Adiga, the author of the white tiger, depicts India as a vast and dark jungle where hierarchy and corruption are the rulers of the nation. A primary motive of Adiga while writing the novel is to confront the corruption existing in modern India. He has done this quite successfully through the use of animal imagery. Throughout the novel, Balram views the whole of India as a kind of zoo, in which everyone has their own boundaries or as Balram would say, their cages. Eventually it was those boundaries that kept India in a way, somewhat civilized. But according to Balram, in 1947 when the British left "only a moron would think that we became free then." As Balram says, zoo law changed to jungle law.
"See this country, in its days of greatness, when it was the richest nation was like a zoo. . And then, thanks to all those politicians in Delhi, on fifteenth of August 1947, the day the British left- the cages had been let open; and the animals had attacked and ripped each other apart and jungle law replaced zoo law.".
Leaders were not ruling the whole of India, but instead the embodiments of corruption, those who preyed on the weaker animals. The Stork collected taxes, without any legality, from the fishermen and boaters. The buffalo owns, without buying, the rickshaws and the goatherds. Balram was himself nicknamed the white tiger by a man who was impressed by his surprising knowledge. He labelled his master Ashok the Lamb because on his return from America he was a humble man. "Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence". This philosophy is rarely practiced in reality, in the modern India where animals are worshipped like gods. For example, the two dogs live a luxurious life and are constantly spoiled, whilst the landlords exploit the people living in the darkness.
Adiga even makes use of animal imagery in order to expose the weaknesses and corruptions of the Indian education system; to him it resembled a jungle.
Also, white tigers are not Siberian. The Siberian white tigers are hybrid of a white Bengal tiger and a Siberian tiger. ... Their range is Asia, mostly around India. ... The enemies of the white tiger are humans and other tigers. ... The white tigers are also hard to find because the gene needed for a white tiger is so very rare. ...
The underside of their abdomen is white and their ears are black on the outside with a prominent white spot on it. ... The only place where you can find The Royal Bengal Tiger now is in the land of its natural heritage, India. ... The risk of extinction forced the government of India to initiate the 'Project Tiger' in April 1973, when the tiger population was less than 2000. ... It is anticipated there are only about 4000 tigers left in India. ... TRAFFIC-India has been observing the tiger's state of affairs in India, especially around the trades of skin and other parts of ...
The extinct ones are: Bali tigers (which no one has seen since 1937 and no picture of it exists), Caspian tigers (extinct since 1970) and Java tigers (extinct since 1980). But there is also a white tiger, which is a color variation of Bengal tigers. ... Tiger fat is used to treat leprosy. ... Bengal tiger 3,176 4,556 Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal Amur tiger 366 406 China, N. Korea, Russia South China tiger 20 30 S. ...
The Amur tiger is presently threatened with extinction in the wild. ... The goal of this habitat conservation plan is to protect all existing tiger habitat, i.e., no further loss of Amur tiger habitat should occur. ... This core network acts to insure that the metapopulation of tigers will not be fragmented, provides for a minimum population of tigers, and provides a protected "reservoir" out of which tigers can emigrate to areas where tigers have been eliminated. ... Throughout tiger range, from India to Russia, home range size is largely dependent on the density of prey species in the reg...
Part A In the The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the main character Balram writes a letter to the Premier of China, Wen Jiabao. The Premier is going to be visiting India soon. ... He describes India's social structure and shares his views on it. ... He then presents another problem with India from an economic perspective. ... He is very adamant about sending this very black and white message to the Premier. ...
A white male from the boondocks can move to the big city; the Hispanic male living in the same inner-city neighborhood may see the white male as an intruder instead of as a friend or neighbor and a conflict can develop. ... He started an organization called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). ... In February 1990, the LTTE kidnapped 15 Indian customs officials in Tamil Nadu, India. ... On August 7, 1995, an LTTE militant from India carried out a suicide-bombing, using a cart filled with plastic explosives, in Colombo, killing 22 people. ... This marks use by LTTE of tactics ...
Lahul is a small valley stuck between India's Himachal Pradesh and ladakh, the northern portion of Jammu and Kashmir. ... The Holi or color festival is traditionally celebrated in Northern India for a day or two, but has a special significance in Imphal. The Imphal valley, sixty miles by forty miles, is in Manipur state and is located in eastern India bordering Burma, at a mean altitude of two thousand feet with a moderate climate. ... On the morning of the full moon, all men dressed in sparkling white clothes and carrying dry colors, go to the palace of the once ruling family of the Mani...
In a zoo in India, 13 white tigers died from what was thought to be the stress of being in a zoo. There are only 61 known white tigers to be alive today. Along with the tigers killed in the Nandankana Zoological Park, a crocodile was found decapitated. ... Along with the tigers that died in the Indian zoo, there are around 114 other animals that are being treated for illnesses in a different zoo. ...
Throughout the Orient, and into India where about 3000BC an Indian prince was recorded as practising killing blows and strikes on his servants; differing forms of fighting and defensive techniques have developed; all taking various aspects of each others style and adding it to their own particular Martial Art. ... The army has a battalion known as 'the Tiger' consisting of 1000 men - all black belts. ... Taekwondo uses belts to show the different ranks, ranging from white to black, with yellow, green, blue and red belts in between. ...
