Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವ ದ ಅಡ ಗ) (born 23 October 1974 ) is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Read full biography of Aravind Adiga →
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry... →
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada... →
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian... →
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is... →
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the... →
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at... →
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when... →
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice... →
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least... →
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any... →
Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವ ದ ಅಡ ಗ) (born 23 October 1974 ) is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.