The Work of Chetan Bhagat

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Introduction :

Chetan Bhagat, born 22 April 1974, is an Indian author, Columnist, and speaker. Bhagat is the author of five bestselling novels, Five Point Someone (2004), One Nigth @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009) & Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition (2011).

The issues that we feel our own are reflected into his writing. Youth is the important section of the society who is supposed to build the nation. We can see enthusiasm. In the youths of his novels to do something and change India.

The youth of India is aware about Corruption and it is seen in the novel Revolution 2020. Bhagat's fictions seem real life story and it unravels the mind of the contemporary youth. The secular and broadmidendess of Indian youth gets reflected through the characters of Bhagat. Bhagat through his popular fictions highlighted metro generation and the changing scenario of modern India.

It is true that IIT, Delhi and IIM, Ahmadabad helped him to construct a comprehensive idiom of the life of youths struggling against the situations that are responsible for perversions and sickness. In five Point Someone we see that immediately after admission, the ordeal of ragging by seniors made them aware of hostilities and humiliations in that campus. Bhagat has portrayed nice picture of the three friends. Alok joined IIT under the trailing conditions of family and personal life. Therefore, he determined to be a 'nine pointer'. Being a responsible son, Alok was expected to support his handicapped father and also to arrange the marriage of his sister. Hari finds it difficult to concentrate on his studies. He proves to be a loser because in the authority of professors, he finds the reflections of the terr...

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References :

1) Bhagat, Chetan. Five Points Someone. New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2004. 189th impression 2011. Print.

2) Bhagat, Chetan. One Night @ the call center. New Delhi : Rupa and Co., 2005. 115th impression 2011. Print.

3) Bhagat, Chetan. 2 States : The Story of My Marriage. New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2009. 83rd impression 2011. Print.

4) Bhagat, Chetan. The 3 mistakes of my life. New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2008. 107th impression 2011. Print.

5) Bhagat Chetan. Revolution 2020. New Delhi : Rupa and Co., 2011. 10th impression 2011. Print.

6) Sablok, Reena. The Emergence of the Indian Best-Seller. New Delhi : Atlantic. 2013.

7) Dr. Agarwal Beena. Chetan Bhagat : A voice of Seismic Shift in Indian English Fiction. Jaipur : Y King Books, 2013.

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