The Silent Suffering: Poverty as a Central Theme in Aravind Adiga's Between the Assassinations

Abstract

India's prominent voice in the twenty-first century is Aravind Adiga. He portrays the suffering of India's oppressed class. Adiga creates a striking image of the life in Between the Assassinations. The major themes of his works are poverty, hunger, and the exploitation of those who are poor. The novel's twelve parts, which focus on the various aspects of life in the village of Kittur, offer a glimpse into the India of Darkness. The novel, explores how poverty, the mother of all evils, creates other evils in society and sheds light on the social and political unrest that India saw in 1984 and 1991. There are many different types of characters in the novel, ranging from the town's poorest person to Kittur, the richest person. It portrays the terrible reality of underdeveloped rural communities forced to migrate to cities in order to exist as homeless people