Halwai

Balram Halwai is a composite of various men I've met when traveling through India.

Aravind Adiga - An interview with author 2010

From where did the inspiration for Balram Halwai come?

Aravind Adiga - An interview with author 2010

That "nothing" already places Masterji at the other end of the human scale from Balram Halwai, the cunning and callous protagonist of "The White Tiger," Mr. Adiga's first novel in 2008 that won the Man Booker Prize.

A Mumbai of Wants Chandrahas Choudhury 2011

The Economist called Adiga "the Charles Dickens of the call-centre generation" and his villainous hero, Balram Halwai, reminded the Independent on Sunday "of the endless talkers that populate the novels of the great Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal," but in the Washington Post, Tony D'Souza heard the echoes instead of "the pop and fluff of The Nanny Diaries irony."

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

It is the story of one who escapes the Chicken Coop, where Halwai says, the vast majority of Indians live.

My faith in the Man Booker restored Tripp 2009

Mrs. English-speaking Halwai to cover up their sagging extremities is a service to both God and humankind, it is argued.

On Swimsuits and Shame ps 2005

Mrs. English-speaking Halwai to cover up their sagging extremities is a service to both God and humankind, it is argued.

Archive 2005-05-01 ps 2005

[393] They show strictness in other ways, making their own sweetmeats at home and declining to eat those of the Halwai

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

But these are now partaken of abroad, and also purchased from the Halwai or confectioner on the assumption that he is a Brahman.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Barhai or carpenter; and the Halwai and Bharbhunja or confectioner and grain-parcher.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894