The White Tiger. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, 2008
movie vs book
Ramin Bahrani, 2021

Entrepreneur Balram Halwai emails Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, requesting a meeting, and relating his life story. He states his belief that the Indian underclass is trapped in a perpetual state of servitude, like chickens in a chicken coop. However when his father is unable to pay off The Stork, the village landlord, Balram’s grandmother forces him to work in the village’s tea stall, and he never returns to school.