He understood that in order to rise above his caste, he needs to become an entrepreneur. In Delhi, he came across the void between the rich and the poor. There came a time when he stopped sending money to his family and shifted to New Delhi with Ashok and his wife Pinky Madam, where he became aware of the corruption in the government. Balram then finds a job to drive for Ashok, the son of one of Laxmangarh’s landlords.īy blackmailing Ram Prasad, the other driver, he became the main driver in quite lesser time and switched to a luxurious car from a small car. Later he decided to be a driver and started to learn driving. He started learning about India’s government and economy through the conversations of the customers. In order to pay for his cousin’s dowry, he was forced to leave school during his childhood and he started working in a teashop of Dhanbad with his brother. The novel revolves around the life of Balram, who narrates his journey from a rickshaw puller to an entrepreneur in a letter which he completed in seven consecutive nights addressing the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao.īalram Halwai lived with his parents, grandmother, brother, and family in the village of Laxmangarh. Aravind was a South Asia correspondent in TIME for three years and after that, he went freelance.Īnd in this freelance period only he wrote this epic novel ‘ The White Tiger’, which won him the 2008 ‘Booker Prize’ and thus became the fourth India-born author to win this prestigious prize. He then studied at another renowned college, Magdalen College, Oxford.
At Columbia College of Colombia University, New York City, he studied English literature under Simon Schama and graduated as salutatorian in 1997. With his family, Aravind migrated to Sydney, Australia and studied in James Ruse Agricultural High School.
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