Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008) while exploring the poverty and hardships, inequality and caste discrimination, crime and corruption rooted in the marrow of Indian society, has reaffirmed the exoticist image of India. It makes poverty a profitable brand; and invests spirituality and mystery within the context of a prosperous journey of a lower-class to a business tycoon. The Eurocentric perspective of the conventional East is manifest in his attempt to portray an almost homogenous standard of rural Indian life. In contrast with the elitist life style of the city of Bangalore is present the superstitious illiterate villagers of the Laxmangarh which adds to the spiritual mysticism to the image of India. The recurring theme of servitude reminds us of our colonial past. The effort to treat common people as anonymous and without any individuality overtly shows the influence of the Western cosmopolitan model of writing. With the presentation of the narrator's obsession with the distinction of skin colours, the reverberation of the word 'Darkness', the depiction of the hellish and primitive almost animal-like standard of living assert that the author in his attempt to create a counter-hegemonic culture for the third world ends up in capturing the 'imaginative' or psychological 'geography' of the orientalist thought