Chetan Bhagat's 'one night @ the call center':Literary Analysis

Chetan Bhagat: One night @ the Call Centre (2005)

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I agree: “Bhagat has a talent for tapping into the zeitgeist; One side One Night at the Call Center throws lights on some of the burning issues of modern age. The problems of placement and settlement of the educated youth, formation of various kinds of human relationships and above all, the impact of materialism on human relationship are discussed here with great pain and vision.

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Mannepean satire through the the story of Hari, Ryan, Alok and Neha is told with exceptional clarity and candidness. It is a fascinating book deals with the hopes and aspiration of Hari, Alok and Ryan who are typical as well as strong individuals having different aims and ambitions, and at the same time they also represent the broad community of the prestigious institutes of the nation. One Night at the Call centre is an interesting novel for several resons altogether. The entire action of the novel takes place in the night. The night may have some symbolic implications here. Throughout the night, Shyam, V-room, Radhika, Esha, Priyanka and Military uncle are not in state of peace and harmony. Throughout the night, they strive about betterment, satisfaction, contentment and settlement, they struggle hard and there is panic and chaos in the night have been scattered by the light of sun which also marks the beginning of new life of all the six characters of the novel.

Chetan’s narration of story is very well interesting way he start and reader get feels happy and what next come they desire to read

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 the characters are immediately identifiable and the writing is fast-paced, smooth and undemanding. He writes for a generation that sees very few reflections of its aims, heartbreaks and language in contemporary literature." 

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ON@TCC has lots of potential. The characters one finds working in these places, the cross-cultural issues (some of which he even manages to begin to convey), the different faces of modernizing India, the family pressures on (especially) women: Bhagat even lays a decent foundation. But in going completely overboard (god ! Operation Yankee Fear !) he undoes all of the promise of the book, and with his morally defective happy end sends such a wrong message that one has to condemn the whole exercise.

5.  Unfortunately, these Indians aren't exactly bright lights either. But how much easier to blame sinister and worthless distant entities (with local bad bosses tossed in for good measure): tweak the complaint and it sounds like Americans complaining about illegal immigrants:

Meanwhile bad bosses and stupid Americans suck the blood out of our country's most productive generation.

Bhagat raises valid issues and concerns -- but doesn't take them in the least seriously, offering neither reasonable descriptions of the issues, nor any sensible way of dealing with them.
       And then there's that call from god. Bhagat redeems himself ever so slightly by suggesting in his Epilogue that there is an alternate explanation for that particular episode -- but he doesn't embrace it (because he (mistakenly) believes this version is the "better story"), and in fact opts for the god-line there as well.

6.  The Call from God in the novel is second chance or spark on reader mind of Indian situation of young generation The themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the rising Indian middle class, including questions about career, inadequacy, marriage, family conflicts in a changing India, and the relationship of the young Indian middle class to both executives and ordinary clients whom they serve in the United States. There is an aspect of self-help in the book as the author invites readers to identify aspects of themselves and their lives that make them angry and that they would like to change.