Last Man in Tower is an acclaimed novel by Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga that explores the human cost of rapid urban development in modern Mumbai. The story follows Yogesh A. Murthy, known as "Masterji," a retired schoolteacher who becomes the lone holdout when a powerful real estate developer offers to buy the apartments in his aging housing society. As his neighbors increasingly pressure him to sell, Masterji's principled stand exposes the tensions between integrity and greed, community and self-interest, and progress and displacement. Sharp, compelling, and deeply humane, the novel examines themes of morality, ambition, corruption, justice, class, family, and the changing face of urban India.