Introduction Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won Britain's esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty-first century known as materialism era. Through its subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, it highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different Indias in one “an India of light and an India of darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first represents prosperous India where everyone can dream of a healthy and comfortable life. The life of this "shining India" is reflected through gigantic shopping malls, flyovers, fast and furious lifestyle, neon lights, modern vehicles and many opportunities which create a hallucination that India is competing with western countries and is not far behind them. But on the other hand, life thrives on poverty, food scarcity, deadly diseases, inferiority, unemployment, exploitation and humiliation, homelessness and environmental degradation in India of darkness. Reflection on Environmental Degradation in Aravind Adiga's The White TigerEnvironmental degradation is nothing but the result of the dynamic interaction of socioeconomic, institutional and technological activities. Environmental changes can be governed by many factors including economic growth, population growth, urbanization, agricultural intensification, increasing energy consumption and transportation. In the era of the industrial revolution and sustainable development, poverty is still a problem at the root of many environmental problems. The intertwined link between environmental degradation, poverty and violent conflict has been an important theme contained in the literature on sustainable development and conflict resolution since the mid-20th century. Although some analysts have argued that the violence has not been limited to the poor and destitute, many have concluded from various studies that environmental devastation, poverty and conflict are inextricably linked. As a journalist of Times of India, Adiga traveled extensively to different places in India and revealed realities with his novel. Therefore, he portrays these realities in the novel through the story of Balram, who belongs to a poor and low-caste shudra, the sufferings in this materialistic era and his journey towards lightness from his native place Laxmangarh, located in the darkness of Jharkhand (India). , to the materialistic world of Delhi and Bangalore. He admits in the novel, “like all good stories; mine starts very far from banglore. You see, I am in the light now, but I was born and raised in darkness. (p.14) Adiga portrays the real image of light India with the colors of bitterness, conflict, cunning, corruption, murder and massive toxic traffic jams.