The Selfish, Greedy and Hypocritical nature of contemporary metropolitan Indians in Arvind Adiga’s Last Man In Tower

Paper makes efforts to explore how the people acts less compassionate in the urge to become rich and human in the age of globalisation. The second novel of Arvind Adiga, the man Booker prize winning writer unfolds the crimes associated with real estate i.e one of the successful industries in the age of globalisation. The book describes how the people become more selfish in the urge to become rich and encourages them to do bad, unexpected things with other humans. The globalisation which is the definition of contribution to the developing nations but on the other hand in reality, it is wide gap between the rich and the poor in developing nations. Therefore insatiable desire for money and success made the middle class and privileged to indulge in criminal activities. With refrence to Adiga‘s Last Man in Tower, efforts has been made to explore this reprehensible acquisitiveness of people that makes them more self-obsessed and unkind.