Opinion - The White Tiger

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I guess, your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse.

Which god's arse though? There are so may choices.

See, the Muslims have one god.

The Christians have three gods.

And we Hindus have 36000000 gods.

Making a grand total of 36000004 divine arses for me to choose from.

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When Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses was banned, Muslim sentiments were cited. But here, Mr. Aravind Adiga, without sodomite intentions though, has raped his country and the religions that are contained within. What do we do? We garland him, we list him for "Indian of the Year" awards, we gift him gold-tipped pens, we lift him on our heads and cry out loud that he made our Nation proud by winning the Man Booker; and recommend him vigorously with sheer awe at how he made us proud and celebrated, by raping us and our identity in his 321-paged sin. We garland him and award him honours, when we ought to bang his bald pate with brass knuckles, banish him, his blasphemous ideas and his brilliantly snivelling book.

To all, who have not read the book, but have read the news bits raving about him, and have created a general intention to read the book sometime soon, create a specific aversion to him, and stay away from his book. He is after all a guy, who sold the dignity of his mother to earn accolades and riches.