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Aravind Adiga's novel, " The White Tiger " presents a complex and often unflattering image of contemporary India, offering a searing critique of the nation's socio economic landscape through the eyes of its protagonist Balram Halwai. The novel delves deep into the heart of modern India, exposing the stark contradictions and moral ambiguities that define its rapid transformation in the 21st century. Through Balram's journey from a poor village boy to a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore, Adiga portrays a nation that grapples with stark socioeconomic disparities, endemic corruption, and a rigid caste system that continues to shape individual destinies.

This paper aims to explore the Dynamics of Power which are conversely used as a medium for Demythologizing the Power Myth by Re-Creating Truth in Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger. The research aims to analyze power structure within both Indian rural and urban social order which contributes to destabilize the hierarchal order and subvert it. The objective of this paper is to highlight the agents of Power which counter the power myth of Indian society in particular and have the potential to restructure and demythologize the power myth as a parochial model by re-creating collective Truth. Aravind Adiga is a contemporary writer and his work has not been explored extensively. There is a gap in criticism with reference to power dynamics in contemporary Indian literature. This study aims to fill this gap. Michel Foucault’s work on Power and its implications on knowledge and re-creation of Truth are used as a tool. This research would open avenues for future researchers to locate power tools and ramifications of the reordering of power structure in the twenty first century rural and urban socio-economic landscape.

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger , which was awarded the Britain’s Prestigious fortieth ‘Man Booker Prize’ in 2008, is in the epistolary form which presents the evil effects of this money-oriented era. The novel is a form of seven- part letter written by the protagonist Balram of the novel to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The novel is a small account of history of an underclass protagonist who starts his journey for his identity from darkness to lightness. Also presents the pathetic condition and struggle of an underclass boy to get rid of his age old underclass condition. Through Balram, the novelist tries to highlight social and mantel exploited condition of the underclass in this twenty first century which is known for its development. The present paper is an effort to find out the suffering of an optimistic poor underclass child who suffers not by his mistakes but to be born and brought up in the underclass society. The paper also highlights the actions and deeds of the ‘Karma Yogi’ protagonist who faces a lot of exploitation and humiliation, and instead of this, he creates the accurate paths for him to become a successful entrepreneur.