Sandeep tries to explain at length why Aravind Adiga is just another ‘template-filler’, like Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy before him:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.In the beginning of an essay on contemporary literary criticism, S.L. Bhyrappa dissects a Kannada short story, entitled Rotti (a dish made of rice flour) and cites numerous similar stories written in that vein. He observes that the story, like U.R. Anantha Murthy’s novel, Bharatipura is merely a filler of a pre-set pattern, a template. The template: various methods of oppressing the working class (in India the template is modified only to mean class=caste), their plight thereof, and some solutions. But those were the ’70s when the stranglehold of Communism silenced every other voice.
About thirty years later, Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker Prize for 2008.
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