Changing Urban Realities in India in Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ The Call Center and 2 States

1174 Words3 Pages

In Bhagat's fiction the attitude of youths towards love, marriage, and sex is not at all emotional; on the contrary it is quite casual. Love, as it is an instinctual feeling, the young generation feels the vibrations of it every now and then but the expression of it and the carrying of their love relationships have definitely changed. As we see in his fictions, there are love proposals and rejections of them but everything is taken quite healthily or say in a matter- of- fact way. Vroom in the call centre loved Esha, and proposed her three to four times, and she kept rejecting him all these times. Even though it is so, they work together and maintain quite a healthy friendship. Shyam and Priyanka had been in relation ever since their college time. When they thought that they should break up, they formally come together and put a break to their relationship. Ultimately after all said and done they come together, and decide to marry but the things that happen in between show us the changed relation equations of our time. Shyam as he says wanted to 'move on', a new terminology in the subject 'Love', develops a casual love relationship with another girl at the call center. A marriage proposal of an NRI working in Microsoft, entertains Priyanka's fancy for the time being but when she learns about the baldness of the guy, her affection turns once again towards Shyam. Krish and Ananya in 2 States fall in love with each other in a strange way. At IIM Ahmadabad, they started studying together in Ananya's room. Krish could not concentrate on his studies, as every time his attention would be caught by Ananya's looks. Out rightly he told her so and the relationship got started quite surprisingly. Particularly in this work, Love marriage and ...

... middle of paper ...

.... Bhagat, Chetan. One Night @ the Call Center. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2005. 52nd impression 2008. Print.
2. Bhagat, Chetan. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2009.14th impression 2008. Print.
3. NCERT. Understanding Economic Development: Social Science Textbook for Class X. Agrahayana (2006). Rpt.Meghalaya. (Jan 2011). Print.
4. N. Vinayakam. ed. Globalization of Indian Economy. New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, Distributors. (1995): Print.
5. Sanjiv Kumar. "Transforming Realities vis-à-vis Postmodern Indian English Fiction".IRWLE Vol 7 (2). Web 24/08/2012
6. Gupta, Suman (2012). "Indian ’commercial’ fiction in English, the publishing industry, and youth culture". Economic and Political Weekly. Vol XLVII (5), pp. 46–53.Web.02/08/2012
7. "Teaching Guide for 'Globalization' Essays." Social Science Research Council: Brooklyn,NY.Web.29/08/2012

Open Document