Corbett has described tiger as the symbol of “large hearted gentleman”. Long before him British poet Blake contrasted tiger with sheep. In the present article I have made a study of three Indian English novels where tiger is a symbol. Tiger stands here for ferocity, ambition and almost an impossible conveyance. Neither Bharati Mukherjee, an NRI author, nor Arvind Adiga, a Carnatic author, could descend from it but Bhabani Bhattacharya made his protagonist, an honest man, descend and enter into wilderness