Cultural Contrast in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Aravind Adiga and Monica Ali are towering figures in the field of literature. Both the writers have explored various dimensions of society and culture in their literary masterpieces. This research paper is an attempt to bring forward a contrast between two different cultures as depicted by Aravind Adiga in The White Tiger and Monica Ali in Brick Lane. The paper will begin with a brief introduction to culture, its significance in the field of literature and will also throw light on cultural contrast in Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’ and Monica Ali’s ‘Brick Lane.’ Aravind Adiga in ‘The White Tiger’ has shown the influence of globalization on Indian culture whereas Monica Ali in ‘Brick Lane’ has focused on the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi young girl who was married off at an early age and how she struggles to establish an identity of her own in the midst of cultural shift due to immigration. The analysis would be done taking into consideration language, religion, materialism, ethnicity, cuisine, and depiction of female characters.