Sunday, September 14, 2008

white tigers



i killed time in inorbit waiting to drive to kurla to pick mukul up yesterday. on the streets and the edges of the mall i clicked photographs of so many of aravind adiga’s white tigers. apparently docile, subservient and respectful to the men in the cars and the women on the cell phones; but inside resentful and angry, waiting for a bottle to break so that they can jab a shard of glass into someone’s throat. more power to them!(?)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

India is a complex nation. So everytime a desi "intellectual" with socialist pangs comes up with a story about India with the usual divides stereotyped and tries to justify violence by the "oppressed" using some pet "root cause theory", the western media and the Indian socialist elite chamchas go ga ga over such literature. Move over Arundhuti, here comes Arvind. Now almost every western journalist or self important, half literate Indian inetllectual or journalist will fall head over heals to quote Arvind about India's society and Arvind like his predecessor Arundhuti will indulge them with "deeply" thought validations and reasonings of their personal interpretation of Indian society.