For one who has led a privileged life Adiga has captured, quite unbelievably, the psyche and thought processes of the Indian underdog, says Reginald Massey
[The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, New York: Simon and Schuster; London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781843547204. HB. 321pp. £12.99]
A great many journalists secretly nurse the ambition of writing a bestseller. Few [...]

Insight into the wider, human, aspect of the Sri Lankan tragedy: Charles P. Savan

“Love” marriage implies a contrast with what was the norm in South Asian society, namely, marriage “arranged” by parents, relations or, in their absence, friends. The narrator, Yalini, aged twenty-one, born (1983) and living with her parents in the USA, is the [...]

She gazed staright into the space ahead, avoiding eye-contact with the friend she hadn’t seen for years. She became absorbed in the view outside the window of the coffee shop where she sat with her long-lost friend: a bus stop, people rushing back and forth, shop displays and the window of another café just across the road.