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.
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Though the world economy as a whole has grown in recent years, a factor that is not taken into account is that the number “of the poor in the world has increased by 100 million” (Roy 3). In other words, the gap between rich and poor is widening. For India, this has startling implications. Though it is a nation that is developing in many ways, it also is a nation blessed with over one billion citizens, a population tally that continues to grow at a rapid rate. This population increase will greatly tax resources, which can create a setback in the development process. The tragedy, of course, is that the world is full of resources and wealth. In fact, Roy quotes a statistic showing that corporations, and not even just countries, represent 51 of the 100 largest economies in the world (Roy 3). For a country struggling to develop, such information is disheartening. However, there is also a more nefarious consequence of the growing disparity between rich and poor, and power and money being concentrated in the hands of multinational corporations: war is propagated in the name of resource acquisition, and corruption can reign as multinationals seek confederates in developing countries that will help companies drive through their plans, resulting in not only environmental destruction but also the subversion of democracy (Roy 3).
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...ember 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian socialist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. His legacy prompted youth in India to begin fighting for Indian independence and he continues to be a youth idol as well as inspiration for modern India. Bhagat Singh felt his life should be dedicated to the noblest cause, that of the freedom of the country. Therefore, there is no rest or worldly desire that can lure him. Bhagat Singh is known for his courage, radical measures, ardent revolts, and his vision for India's independence and future of India. Bhagat Singh led the youth of India towards the achievement of goals which was the independence of India. As a teenager Bhagat Singh was a voracious reader. He studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to Anarchist and Marxist ideologies. (Singh, 2011)
According to a survey conducted by Amazon across India, the English translation of ‘Colaba Conspiracy’ by Surendra Mohan Pathak, a Hindi pulp fiction novel was the most popular Indian book of 2014. But the works of Surendra Pathak and the likes of his such as Ved Prakash Sharma or Om Prakash Sharma has never been reviewed by any critics and published in magazine and newspapers. There was a time they didn’t care – but now they do, and with a little help from fans and loyal publishers, they are trying to reverse the tide. We believe, if we follow the efforts of at least one such eminent best-selling writer in our film, follow his trials and tribulations over a period of time as and when it happens – we might have a story at hand that has a universal appeal because it represents the ‘situation’ that popular (read non-mainstream if you like) writers are facing worldwide.
When discussing the controversial authors of Indian literature, one name should come to mind before any other. Salman Rushdie, who is best known for writing the book “Midnights Children.” The first two chapters of “Midnights Children” are known as “The Perforated Sheet”. In “The Perforated Sheet” Rushdie utilizes magic realism as a literary device to link significant events and their effects on the lives of Saleem’s family to a changing India. In fact, it is in the beginning of the story that the reader is first exposed to Rushdie’s use of magic realism when being introduced to Saleem. “On the stroke of midnight/clocks joined palms” and “the instant of India’s arrival at independence. I tumbled forth into the world”(1711). Rushdie’s description of the clocks “joining palms” and explanation of India’s newfound independence is meant to make the reader understand the significance of Saleem’s birth. The supernatural action of the clocks joining palms is meant to instill wonder, while independence accentuates the significance of the beginning of a new era. Rushdie also utilizes magic realism as an unnatural narrative several times within the story to show the cultural significance of events that take place in the story in an abnormal way.
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The corruption in hospitals, where “doctors can keep their government salary and work in private hospitals”, sees people like Balram’s father die of horrible deaths every day. Dismayed by the lack of respect of the government for its dying citizens, Balram is corrupted by the fact that in the “darkness”, there is no service, not even in death. Balram also claims that “the schoolteacher had stolen our lunch money”, which was for a government funded lunch program. However, Balram doesn’t blame him, which justifies that Balram, from such a young age gives into the idea of corruption saying that “...you can’t expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet”. In addition to his father and the school teacher, Balram is corrupted by his childhood hero Vijay. Growing up, Balram idolises Vijay for having escaped “the darkness”. However what he is ignorant of is that even though Vijay is in “the light” he is still corrupted by “the darkness”. Balram explains that “Vijay and a policemen beat another men to death”, yet he doesn’t see it as a problem, because he understand that one cannot become successful in such a corrupt system without becoming as corrupt as the system itself. It is here that Adiga asks the question of how are impoverished Indians are expected to refuse to engage in corruption when they live in such poor conditions. Thus, the reader is able to sympathize with Balram’s corruption,
On a smaller scale, Ghosh presents a narrative rich with culture, and it appears that not a single detail was overlooked. Calcutta as a location is not only a backdrop, but is a central, crucial character. The camera navigates through the city of Calcutta, India, developing at once both the main characters on screen, and the city in which they traverse. As Vidya’s story and actions raise in climactic fashion, so too does the city; it is a reflection of Vidya’s own increasing anxiety and turmoil. There is a minor detail in the police station that many might overlook: a crime board. The board lists out t...
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, published in 1980, was perhaps the seminal text in conceiving opinions as to interplay of post-modern and post-colonial theory. The title of the novel refers to the birth of Saleem Sinai, the novel’s principal narrator, who is born at midnight August 15th 1947, the precise date of Indian independence. From this remarkable coincidence we are immediately drawn to the conclusion that the novel’s concerns are of the new India, and how someone born into this new state of the ‘Midnight’s child’, if you will, interacts with this post-colonial state. To characterise the novel as one merely concerned with post-colonial India, and its various machinations, is however a reductive practice. While the novel does at various times deal with what it is to be Indian, both pre and post 1947, it is a much more layered and interesting piece of work. Midnight’s Children’s popularity is such that it was to be voted 25th in a poll conducted by the Guardian, listing the 100 best books of the last century, and was also to receive the Booker Prize in 1981 and the coveted ‘Booker of Bookers’ in 1993. http://www.bookerprize.co.uk/
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Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Britain’s esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty first century known as materialism era. Through his subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, he highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different India in one “an India of Light and an India of Darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first one represents the prosperous India where everyone is able to dream a healthy and comfortable life. The life of this “Shining India” reflects through giant shopping malls, flyovers, fast and furious life style, neon lights, modern vehicles and a lot of opportunities which creates hallucination that India is competing with western countries and not far behind from them. But, on the other side, the life nurtures with poverty, scarcity of foods, life taking diseases, inferiority, unemployment, exploitation and humiliation, homelessness and environmental degradation in India of darkness.
Nicholas B. Dirks. (2011). Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton University Press
Although the author presents the English prejudice in the novel in many situations, he also presents the Indian reaction and behavior. The author demonstration of British behavior vs. Indian behavior gives the readers the field of free thinking and association to decide for themselves which side they would favor. It also questions the validity of criticisms that think of this book as a bias novel that offends British people. However, the author does indicate his favoritism towards Indians throughout the novel by presenting them as the weak and helpless characters that do not have any authority in their own country, but they poses scientific and spiritual knowledge that earns them respect among their society.