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the white tiger -genius wok
By: madhura13 Member's photo available | Nov 16, 2009 08:32 PM

The novel white tiger is written by author Aravind Adiga, the journalist in Times. Novel also won booker prize & truly novel is work... Read complete review |  Read 16 times |  Comments (0)  
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Watch out for those claws!
By: leap24 Star Writer | Oct 12, 2009 09:34 PM

I must confess that before I read the book I sort of already disliked it. I had heard a lot of negative reviews about it and those had clouded my mind. I needed to find out for myself. So when I found... Read complete review |  Read 135 times |  Comments (5)  
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White Tiger
By: k_zed | Sep 24, 2009 11:08 PM

After reading the book, i began to understand the fascination of many friends over it. It’s most probably perhaps the book’s story mainly centers around areas in delhi and gurgaon. Aravind has a distinct... Read complete review |  Read 79 times |  Comments (0)  
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White tiger review
By: Chanchalb | Sep 20, 2009 09:56 PM

Aravind has very cleverly portrayed the poor ambitious Indian from the village who starts off as a driver and goes on to own his cars....his journey is pretty involving since it interestingly shows the... Read complete review |  Read 92 times |  Comments (0)  

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Aravind Adiga's enchanting, incisive debut novel
By: sandyssn Member's photo available | Sep 19, 2009 07:54 PM

Aravind Adiga’s fascinating debut novel explores with wit and insight of life of the two Indians & depicts India as a place that has "has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation,... Read complete review |  Read 68 times |  Comments (0)  
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Silk and bilk of INDIA
By: uma_54 Member's photo available | Sep 19, 2009 07:24 AM

Its like travelling in India, if one wants to know all about the silk and bilk of India, the WHITE TIGER is one thing to read. Every corner one can find no bordom but something interesting and its like... Read complete review |  Read 72 times |  Comments (1)  
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A TIGER FROM THE LAND OF DARKNESS
By: abdullah71 Member's photo available | Sep 17, 2009 09:01 PM

The way Aravind Adiga entertains in this booker-clinching page-turner absolves him of ‘all the sins’ which are supposedly committed by him as perceived by some of literary critics in his debut novel.... Read complete review |  Read 60 times |  Comments (0)  
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Not worth the hype
By: Womm | Sep 02, 2009 12:08 PM

The book doesn’t deserve the attention it begets. A booker is a sure-shot way to catapult into the lime-light. The storyline is a kichdi of the author’s perception of India. It seems he collected reports... Read complete review |  Read 32 times |  Comments (0)  
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Not so White after all
By: paykals | Jul 04, 2009 08:34 PM

With due respect to all the jury members who chose this book for the booker’s prize, it is surprisingly below average book in every sense.I picked up this book after a friend of mine recommended it.... Read complete review |  Read 163 times |  Comments (1)  
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nice book ...a good read.
By: nisha.bshr Member's photo available | Jun 21, 2009 01:47 PM

Yes, i saw most of the books that said this was basically an India bashing book.... i too cannot deny it because sometimes it do come up...but when you give it a second thought, i do believe that whatever... Read complete review |  Read 52 times |  Comments (0)  
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Pathetic
By: amitgarg81 | Apr 08, 2009 10:22 AM

The author has taken the easiest way to sucess, that is bash India/Indian and lick the foreigners. Show that India is the worst place to be and the foreigners come running after you saying WOW, I always... Read complete review |  Read 125 times |  Comments (3)  
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The 'real' India
By: VishalMadan | Apr 01, 2009 02:17 AM

Mr. Adiga’s booker prize winning book is a raw, kind-of-first-hand and awakening picture of the country called India. The piece goes under your skin while revealing the dirty underbelly of this country.The... Read complete review |  Read 118 times |  Comments (2)  
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Review in the format of Book: 'The White Tiger'
By: ankit_15feb Member's photo available | Mar 21, 2009 08:09 PM

For the Desk of:His Excellency Wen Jiabao, The Premier’s Office, Beijing, Capital of the Freedom-Loving Nation of ChinaFrom the Desk of:‘AG’, The Thinking Man, And... Read complete review |  Read 360 times |  Comments (0)  
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FROM Brown skin FOR White Skin
By: rvbbabu Member's photo available | Mar 01, 2009 03:14 PM

Adiga’s debut novel was the 2008 winner of the Man Booker Prize.. Adiga was, at one time, a Indian correspondent for Time magazine and according to him this Novel is result of his jottings during his tours... Read complete review |  Read 445 times |  Comments (17)  

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Murder, he wrote
By: akisha Star Writer | Feb 24, 2009 06:50 PM

FlashMy father killed my mother in a drunken rage when I was fiveMy little sister died while I was looking after herWe need money to get our... Read complete review |  Read 367 times |  Comments (65)  
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Mostly india bashing
By: jumpshooter | Feb 24, 2009 05:42 PM

I am keeping a promise to myself to write a mouthshut review of this book when I read it almost 3 months back. So please pardon me if I gloss over the facts. The review is kept at a high level and I wont... Read complete review |  Read 127 times |  Comments (3)  
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Utterly Unrealistic!
By: Bookish | Jan 13, 2009 01:27 PM

I was quite excited at the prospect of reading a book which focussed on conflict between two Indias. I was long waiting for a notable coverage on the subject as the media proclamation of ‘Shining India’... Read complete review |  Read 209 times |  Comments (3)  
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A STORY OF RAGS TO RICHES
By: bobby007 Star Writer | Jan 06, 2009 11:30 AM

The White Tiger is a great dry witted first novel which examines Indian social groups and crime levels giving you a sinister and engaging story line all in one vessel. The opinionated narrator talks to... Read complete review |  Read 206 times |  Comments (8)  
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White Tiger - Autobiography of paradoxical Indian
By: mokshjuneja | Jan 04, 2009 10:37 PM

First and foremost, like the way Arvind Adiga author of White Tigerstarts fiction work as a series of letters, it completely breaks themonotony of reading the novels in phrases and paragraphs. Quiet aninteresting... Read complete review |  Read 179 times |  Comments (0)  
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Extremely funny and sarcastic
By: partywithneha Member's photo available | Jan 01, 2009 04:26 PM

This book was on my “to-do” list ever since it was recentlyawarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. At a point in time when many refer toIndia as an “economic miracle", the novel is an attempt to expose... Read complete review |  Read 150 times |  Comments (0)  
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