Chapter 1. Part.1 "the first night"

Chapter.1  Part.1 

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The first night

Summary:

The first chapter of " the white tiger" is called “ the first night”.

Balram an Idian entrepreneur, heard an announcement on the radio which said that the “ Premier Jiabao is coming to Bangalore next week and he is on a mission: he wants to know the truth about Bangalore and he wants to meet some Indian entrepreneurs and hear the story of their success.
That’s why Balram decides to write a letter to the prime minister of china.

He considers himself as the one who knows the truth about Bangalore and as one of the most successful businessman in Bangalore .
Balram offers to tell him the truth by telling him his the story of his life.
At first he talks about his great admiration for the ancient nation of china.
He believes that the future of the world lies with the yellow and the brown man.

He starts his story by telling about him being”half-baked”.
Half baked is someone who can read and write,but who doesn’t get what he reads.
India is full of people like him. Most of the children get taken out of the school after 2 or 3 years.
That’s what happened to Balram as well.
Balram calls his story: “ an Autobiography of a Half-Baked Indian.”
In his opinion entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

He continues with describing some basic facts about himself. How he got to his name, where he was born etc. He does that by telling about a poster a police man once made about him when he was wanted for questioning.


Personal Part:

Like I mentioned before the narrator talks about his admiration for china and how there are only three nations in the world who never let them selves be ruled by foreigners: China, Afghanistan, and Abyssinia. This is an aspect i found particularly interesting.
I think its amazing how every culture besides those three, got influenced by another country and their cultur. There are so many connections we don’t even know about.
Only those three countrys formed theire own cultur and theire own country without any influence from foreigners.
Besides that its interessting to know why they were the only ones who never let them selfves rule by anybody else. What made them different to all the other nations in the world?

Links:

I think this aspect is controversial that’s why I couldn’t find a specific link I just found some debates about that topic.

http://www.blurtit.com/q623917.html