Desai’s use of English language, as

Desai’s use of English language, as noted earlier, is a case in point. There is also a tendency to make use of generalizations and totalizations that serve to reinforce stereotypes. (584). “Darkness”, the very name of the place Balram hails from in Adiga’s novel is a case in which nomenclature itself serves as the totalization of a stereotype. Lau also identifies a third problem, that of making truth claims about their work. “This closeness of personal experience is made known to the reader, who is given enough information to easily notice the resemblance between the author’s biography and the fiction” (586).