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Urban Cannibalism: The City as Predator in Adiga’s Last Man in Tower

Author(s) Sanskriti
Country India
Abstract The paper is a study of urban cannibalism as a metaphor for predatory capitalism in Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga. Set in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, the novel highlights that the city is not only a geographical space but also a consuming force that devours ethical values, innocence of city’s dwellers, communal bonds, and individual integrity. Through the conflict surrounding the redevelopment of Vishram Society, Adiga exposes how real-estate capitalism transforms neighbours into competitors and solidarity into suspicion. The promise of economic mobility becomes a mechanism of moral erosion, where survival is conditioned by complicity and silence. The study is an argument about the functions of metropolis like Mumbai as a predatory organism structured by neoliberal greed and spatial violence. Like the other cities, Mumbai has high-rise towers and Skyscrapers buildings, symbolizing aspiration and modernity; simultaneously it is a site of coercion, surveillance, and dispossession. By foregrounding the tragic resistance of Masterji, the novel Last Man in Tower is tale of psychological and ethical consequences of urban redevelopment that uncovers how capitalist desire consumes or devours the human relationships. Drawing on theories of urban studies and neo-capitalism, the paper is a reimagining of the contemporary Indian cities like, Mumbai as a cannibal and predator where profit supersedes humanity. Ultimately, the paper is an effort that reveals the illusion of progress in post-liberalization India by portraying the city as a predator that consumes its own inhabitants, exposing the fragile morality underlying urban modernity.
Keywords Urban Cannibalism, Predatory Capitalism, Neoliberal Urbanism, Moral Decay, Urban Redevelopment, Destruction of Community life, Environmental and Human Cost
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-23
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