The politics of Aravind Adiga

Decoding Aravind Adiga’s politics is the key to decode his literature. Or his pretensions to it. Aravind Adiga’s veiled attack in the Outlook magazine (March 11, 2013 issue) on the legendary Dr. S L Bhyrappa—a pan-Indian writer who incidentally happens to write in Kannada, in the memorable words of the Kannada literary critic, H.M. Nayak—exposes precisely this politics.