{"id":103,"date":"2012-02-12T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2012\/02\/12\/a-tale-of-two-indians\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:51:00","slug":"a-tale-of-two-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/wpbooksblog\/2012\/02\/12\/a-tale-of-two-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two indians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the past month, I read two books with similar settings , but diametricaly oppposite story lines., “the White Tiger ‘ by Arvind Adiga and ‘a tale of two Indians ” by Maharshi Mehta. <\/div>\n
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Both the stories are set in rural India and have protagonists struggling to break out of a vicious cycle of poverty, ignorance, casteism and feudalism .<\/div>\n
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That is where the similarity ends.The white Tiger, from rural Bihar  finds his way to Delhi through cunning and deceit and finally obtains a fortune by murdering his employer. He then goes on to use his ill-gotten wealth to bribe the powers that be and become what he calls an entrepreneur.  <\/div>\n
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The second story, set in rural Gujrat, follows a course diametrically opposite. Our hero, loses both parents early in life; and he is particularly upset that he could not save his mother as medical help could not reach her in time due to poor roads. Fired by his mission to participate in building good roads in rural areas, he struggles through his way , through sheer grit and handwork to become an engineer in Goverment service. Through out his life he faces more than his quota of  tragedies and yet finds ways to overcome his personal grief by serving his fellowmen. It is also significant that most of the characters in the novel are based on real people , as mentioned in the ‘acknowledgments’. <\/div>\n
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The ‘white tiger ‘ won the Man Booker prize, while ‘the tale of two Indians’ is hardly known. Is it necessary to expose the dark underbelly of the country for an Indian work to win an Oscar or a Man Booker prize? <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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