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Volume 17:1 January 2017
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Culture and Scenario of Present Day Young Metropolitans Portrayed in
Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ The Call Center

G. Ranjitha, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Chetan Bhagat has been applauded and viewed as a versatile author by the youth at present India. He is a popular novelist who comments on Education, Society and Current Events. The paper entitled “Culture and Scenario of Present Day Young Metropolitans as Portrayed in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Center focuses on vibrant truth about the problems faced by the present metropolitan youth in the life of technocrats at the Call Centers. The above-mentioned facts are discussed with reference to Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Center. It presents the validity of friendship and creative thinking. Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Center portrays the struggles of six call center employees in Delhi and an incident that took place at one night had changed their lives. The call center employees are often fed up with busy schedule at sleepless nights and also in stress in order to take account of their familial issues. The main reason for the call center employees to work there is the better paid salary. The paper through the novel One Night @ the Call Center at the end confirms a reality that that the inner call of the heart should be followed by an individual in order to be successful in this world. Thus, through the novel One Night @ the Call Center, Chetan Bhagat reflects the culture and issues of contemporary Indian Youth at work spot in the present scenario.

Keywords: Chetan Bhagat, One Night @ the Call Center

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is one of the most celebrated and famous fictional writers of the present era. He was born on April 24, 1974. His father was an Army man and his mother, a government employee. The major part of his education was done at Delhi. He studied in the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi during the years 1978 to 1979. He obtained his B.Tech. from IIT, Delhi and completed his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. These two prestigious institutions helped him to construct a comprehensive idiom of the life of youth struggling against the situations that are responsible for perversions and sickness.

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G. Ranjitha, M.A., M.Phil.
Department of English
Kalasalingam University
Krishnankovil 626125
Tamilnadu
India
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