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The role of a satirist has to entertain and instruct his readers through his work. Instruction is a signifier of criticism which aims at restoring order and deterring wrongs in the society. Aravind Adiga, a contemporary Indian artist is the satirist of the same inclination. His novels are overtly political preoccupied with burning issues of capitalisation, class disparity, identity crisis, corruption and deterioration of moral values to name a few. He jolts the readers out of their passivity to make them understand and try curbing the prevalent ills in society. The present paper is an attempt to study Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) as a social satire—a satire on India’s class hierarchy, economy, politics, education system, judiciary in all their nastiness. By sarcastically touching the prevalent injustices and evil practices, he brings forth the dark side of progressing India. The focus of the paper is on how the novelist uses satire to mock societal ills with the main purpose of ameliorating them.