ABSTRACT
Amartya Sen, the Indian-born Nobel Prize winner for economics, wrote The Idea of Justice in 2009. Regarding the word ‘justice’, he notes that in Sanskrit, this word has two different meanings: niti and nyaya. The first term means: law, organization, correctness, institutions, rules. The second term means: real justice, the world as it is in reality. The double meaning returns in a fascinating urban novel, Last Man in the Tower (2011), by Aravind Adiga, the Indian Booker Prize winner. He noted:
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society (Indian). That’s what I’m trying to do – it is not an attack on the country, it’s about the greater process of self-examination.
