![]() Going above and beyond to make himself indispensable to his masters, Balram navigates his path deftly and ruthlessly, while silently battling the cruel hypocrisy and outright brutality of the rich. RELATED: One Night In Miami Ending & Real Meaning Explained Emboldened by fiery ambition and cunning, Balram finds a way to work as a driver for Ashok (Rao), the America-returned son of an affluent landowner. However, Balram aches for more, wishing to break free of the vicious cycle of birth-poverty-death. ![]() ![]() The White Tiger opens as a bildungsroman-of-sorts, wherein an adult and now-successful Balram details the vast and consuming poverty of his upbringing, which he dubs as “The Darkness.” Born in the village of Laxmangarh in India, Balram is forced to abandon his dreams of continued education when his father, a rickshaw-puller, dies of tuberculosis, leaving the family in immense debt. ![]()
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