The Secret of His Success
SOURCE: The New York Times, November 7, 2008 Balram Halwai, the narrator of Aravind Adiga’s first novel, “The White Tiger,” is a modern Indian hero. In a country inebriated by its newfound economic prowess, he is a successful entrepreneur, a self-made man who has risen on the back of India’s much-vaunted technology industry. In a […]
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Learning to Love America, Again
SOURCE: Granta, November 03, 2008 remember when I decided to leave America. It was 2003. I was sitting in a Dunkin’ Donuts on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, reading the paper. The news was all about Iraq: bombs and mutilated children, dead parents and American triumphalism. I was incredulous, as I had been for months. […]