To Light from Darkness: Exploring Poverty, Education, and Inequality in The White Tiger

Poverty, education, and inequality are all interrelated. While inequality is the cause of poverty, education emancipates it. However, the problem is that those caged by poverty have no access to quality education, hence no emancipation for them. However, there are rare instances where a poor person from a low-class family breaks free from the cage of poverty and rises to the upper class. Others from the lower class either keep getting exploited and remain servants or use unethical means to reach the higher upper class. This article examines the sufferings and hardships a person from a low-class society has to go through while rising to the upper class with reference to the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Employing ethnographic methods and thematic analysis, this article attempts to understand inequality and poverty through the different characters and methods they use to get out of the ‘rooster coop’.