Skip to Main Content

ADVERTISEMENT

Aravind Adiga is the author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for fiction. His new novel, Last Man in Tower, was published last year by Knopf.

ADVERTISEMENT

To Each Tongue Its Own

For many Indians the world is experienced through several different languages, as Aravind Adiga writes here about his own twisting linguistic journeys.

Aravind Adiga | Published Feb 19, 2012

Aravind Adiga on Gandhi's Forgotten Legacy of Manliness

The latest controversy over Gandhi's sexuality ignores his true legacy as the ultimate symbol of Indian manhood, says White Tiger author Aravind Adiga.

Aravind Adiga | Published Apr 13, 2011

An Excerpt from Between the Assassinations

Before he wrote The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga wrote Between the Assassinations, a collection of short stories about life in the fictional city of Kittur. Read an excerpt from one of the stories.

Aravind Adiga | Published Jun 10, 2009

My Wild Trip Home

An essay from the author of Between the Assassinations on how he traveled from Brooklyn back to his hometown of Mangalore, and discovered an India he never knew existed.

Aravind Adiga | Published Jun 10, 2009

The Little Movie That Could

A few months ago, Ramin Bahrani was the best director you'd never heard of. Then, writes Daily Beast columnist Aravind Adiga, he made Goodbye, Solo and the world caught on.

Aravind Adiga | Published May 12, 2009

Fighting Terrorism at Too High a Price

Aravind Adiga, bestselling author of The White Tiger, on how the free and democratic country of Sri Lanka has become warped by its prolonged war on terror.

Aravind Adiga | Published May 04, 2009

The Unstoppable Gandhi

Elections in the world's largest democracy involve not one, not two, but four members of the Gandhi political dynasty. Aravind Adiga, bestselling author of The White Tiger, on the Kennedys of India.

Aravind Adiga | Published Apr 23, 2009

ADVERTISEMENT