There are only two castes: men with large bellies and those with small ones. And only two destinies: to eat or be eaten. The portrait of India that emerges from Aravind Adiga’s novel entitled “The White Tiger”, recently the winner of the Booker Prize, differs greatly from the super-globalised and technological one often described. This other India is a harsh and dark reality in which "the planet’s largest democracy” still has to deal with poverty and human rights and where, every day, politicians and civil society trample on Gandhi’s legacy.