Aravind Adiga
One India, two stories
In his last letter to the Chinese Premier, Balram Halwai, the White Tiger in Adiga’s eponymous novel, writes, “I am thinking of real estate next. You see, I’m always a man who sees ‘tomorrow’ when others see ‘today’.” That was in 2008. Three years later, Balram Halwai has metamorphosed into Dharmen Shah, the Mumbai real estate developer, the chief antagonist in Adiga’s new novel, Last Man in Tower. Balram and
