Despite this, “The White Tiger” bristles with present-tense energy. “The white man,” he writes to Wen, is on the way down, while India and China, “the yellow man and the brown man” are in the ascendant. A white tiger is a rare, once-in-a-generation phenomenon. They don’t like the rough way the Stork treats Balram, whose practiced servility makes them a little uncomfortable. Balram is aware of his status as a white tiger, which is to say as a symbol.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 04:18 UTC