Demythologizing the Power Myth by Re-Creating Truth in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

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.