GLIMPSES OF CHETAN BHAGATH LIFE

DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH

SUBMITTED BY: NIHAL MOHAMED SAHIR

CLASS XII A: ENGLISH

SUBMITTED TO: MR. MUJEEB RAHMAN

SUBMITTED AS A PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE SUBJECT ENGLISH AS

REQUIRED FOR ALL INDIA SENIOR SECONDARY CERTIFICATE

EXAMINATION (AISSCE)

MARCH 2022

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am overwhelmed in all humbleness and gratefulness to acknowledge
my depth to all those who have helped me to put these ideas, for
guiding and helping me to complete this project. All that I have done is
only due to such supervision and assistance and I would not forget to
thank them. I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to
our respected principal, Mr. M.P Philip who gave me the golden
opportunity to do this wonderful project, which also helped me in
doing a lot of research and I came to know about so many new things.
Any attempt at any level can‘t be satisfactorily completed without the
support and guidance of my mentor Mr. Mujeeb Rahman who helped
me a lot in gathering different information, collecting data and guiding
me from time to time in making this project. I am thankful to and
fortunate enough to get constant encouragement, support and
guidance from my parents, friends and all teaching staffs that helped
me in successfully completing our project work. Also, I would like to
extend our sincere esteems to all staff in laboratory for their timely
support.

INDEX
1.CERTIFICATE
2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
3 INTRODUCTION
4 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
5 EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
6 LITERARY WORKS
7 ABOUT THE BOOK
8 PLOT
9 CHARACTERS
10 CONCLUSION
11 REFERENCES

Chetan Bhagat
 Born Chetan Prakash Bhagat
22 April 1974 (age 49)
New Delhi ,India

Language English ,Hindi

Genre Romance, realistic fiction, non-fiction, suspense,

thriller

Years active 2004–present

Notable Five Point Someone,2 States: the story of my

works
marriage ,The 3 Mistakes Of My Life

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bhagat was born on 22 April, 1974 in Delhi. After completing his
schooling, he got graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Delhi and did his masters from IIM Ahmedabad. After working for
eleven years in Hong Kong as an investment banker, he returned to
Mumbai and began fulltime writing. He had started his novel about life
on the campus of an IIT while at work only. After much struggle his
first novel ‘Five Point Someone’ came in 2004 and this very first
project led to immense rise in his fame. This book continues to be the
most landmark book in his literary career, being the highest selling
book of India till date. The book also won the Society Young
Achiever’s Award and Publisher’s Recognition Award.
Bhagat had started with comedy based novel writing it in simple
English. The author Samit Basu puts, “Chetan has shown how wrong
Indian publishers are when they explain away their failures to sell
Indian fiction to large numbers of Indians by saying there are no
readers Chetan’s managed to tell them they exist.” His easy style of
writing and the issues linking to everyday problems was well received
by readers, particularly the youth. What is clearly evident from
Bhagat’s first two books -five Point Someone and One Night at the
Call Center is that Bhagat constructs his narratives around the lives of
urbanised youngsters: the pressures to get into a top school, earn
high grades, get a good job and find the right partner. In other words,
much of his popularity can be attributed to his being able to have
created a connection with Indian youth. Bhagat has written 7 books so
far: Five Point Someone, One Night At the Call Center, The Three
Mistakes of My Life, Two States, Revolution 2020, What Young India
Wants and the latest being Half Girlfriend. Apart from writing novels,
Bhagat also writes for the columns of The Times of India and Dainik
Bhaskar among others. These columns have a focus on youth and
national development issues.
EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
Bhagat was raised in a Punjabi family in Delhi and studied at Army Public
School (1978-1991), Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He finished Mechanical
Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi (1991-1995),
and went on to study Business management at the Indian Institute of
Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (1995-1997), where he was conferred the
title of “The Best Outgoing Student”. He found love with his classmate
Anusha Suryanarayan during their student days at IIM and they later got
married. The novel 2 States: The Story of My Marriage, is said to be a
fictional representation of their love story. After Bhagat completed his
education from IIT and IIM, he worked in a financial service company called
Peregrine based in Hong-Kong. Unfortunately it closed down in six months
but he continued to stay in Hong-Kong for eleven years, and was later
employed at Goldman Sachs. His novels are mostly written in ordinary
conversational English and his style of writing is lucid with linear narratives

Bhagat is listed by Fast Company, USA, as one of the world’s “100 most
creative people in business” and has also been included in the Time
magazine's list of "World's 100 Most Influential People" in the year 2010. In
the introductory article of his book, What Young India Wants, he explains
the reason for his change of profession from that of an investment banker to
a writer and says: I was an NRI, someone who earns in dollars and spends his
evening being nostalgic about India. I had no idea I would quit banking and
be back in the streets of Mumbai. If there is someone who should believe in
destiny, it is I. All of this became possible because of the one little, ignored
aspect of my personality when I was a child – me as the entertainer. It
surfaced again and changed my life … That same entertainer reemerged in
Hongkong. My other banker friends took on hobbies like gold and bridge.
Almost by chance, I decided to do what I enjoyed: tell stories. (Bhagat, What
Young India Wants xvi)

LITERARY WORKS
TOP 10 works of this author
1. The Girl in Room 105
2. One Indian Girl
3. Revolution 2020
4. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
5. Making India Awesome
6. Half Girlfriend
7. One Night @ the Call Cente
8. The 3 Mistakes of My Life
9. 2 States
10. Half Girlfriend

Chetan Bhagat’s writing along with the way in which he presented

his characters and also discusses the concept of social reflection
and concept of modernity. As a writer, he is gifted with an
extraordinary ability to deal with various facets of human life. His
popularity as a writer rests basically on his intimate understanding
of human nature. He is an outstanding writer who concentrates on
the passion of the people and deals with them from different
perspectives. His novel deals with different colors of passion such
as love, anger, hatred, and faith, which makes it more relevant to
our regular life. This novel explains that the characters
unnoticeably become part of our own life. Its amusing style and
easy language charm our mind. He holds a mirror to society which
ultimately reflects society. He deals with the harsh realities of life
and problems forced by the young generation in his work. He
writes for common people. His language is…show more content…

One Night @ the Call Center

One Night @ the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat, first
published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call
center employees working at a call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. The
themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the young Indian middle
class, such as career, inadequacy, marriage, and family conflicts.
The book was the second best-selling novel from the author after Five
Point Someone

Publication date: 5 October 2005

Genre : Fiction

PLOT
The book begins with a frame story recounting a train journey
from Kanpur to Delhi. During the journey, the author meets a beautiful
girl who offers to tell him a story on the condition that he has to make
it his second book. After a lot of hesitation, the author agrees. The
story is about six people working in a call center and relates the
events that happen one night when get a phone-call from 'God'.
Claimed to be based on a true story, the author uses Shyam Mehra
(alias Sam Marcy) as the narrator and protagonist, who is one among
the six call center employees. Shyam loves but has lost Priyanka, who
is now planning an arranged marriage with someone else, Vroom
loves Esha, Esha wants to be a model, Radhika is in an unhappy
marriage with a demanding mother-in-law, and Military Uncle wants to
communicate with his grandson. They all hate Bakshi, their cruel and
somewhat sadistic boss.
To cheer themselves up, all the lead characters of the novel decide to
go to a night club. After enjoying for a while, they leave back for the
office. While returning, they face a life-threatening situation when their
vehicle crashes into a construction site hanging over a mesh of iron
construction rods. As the rods began to yield slowly, they start to
panic. They are unable to call for help as there is no mobile phone
network at that place, but Shyam's mobile phone starts ringing. The
phone call is from God, who speaks modern English. He speaks to all
of them and gives them suggestions to improve their life, and advises
them on how to get their vehicle out of the construction site. The
conversation with God motivates the group to such an extent that they
get ready to face their problems with determination and motivation.
Meanwhile, Vroom and Shyam hatch a plan to throw Bakshi out of the
call center and prevent the closing of the call center, whose
employees are to be downsized radically. When they return to the call
center, they carry out their plan successfully. At the end, each
character has fixed a part of their life, and the author invites readers to
identify aspects of themselves and their lives that they would like to
change

CHARACTERS
● Shyam Mehra (Sam Marcy) - The main protagonist, Priyanka's ex-
boyfriend, and Vroom's best friend. He is 26 years old and is perpetually
afraid to propose to Priyanka for marriage. Due to Priyanka's mother
distrusting him, Priyanka and Shyam breakup. He is always a slave to
Bakshi.
● Priyanka Sinha - Shyam's ex-girlfriend who he later reunites with. She
was going to get married abroad to Ganesh, which made Shyam find it
difficult to look her in the eyes.
● Varun Malhotra (Victor Meller), aka Vroom - He is nicknamed Vroom
because of his love for vehicles. He is 22 years old. He has a crush on
Esha though he never admits it straight. He tries proposing to Esha but she
rejects it because of his obsession with girls, pizza, and vehicles. His
parents' divorce made him depressed, though he doesn't show his sadness
as he hates sympathy. At the end of the book, Esha accepts a date with
Vroom. He hates Bakshi and never volunteers to help Bakshi, unlike
Shyam.
● Esha Singh (Eliza Singer) - An aspiring model. She always wears
modern dresses and was voted THE HOTTEST CHICK by her office
colleagues. She came to Chandigarh against her parents will. By the end of
the book, she becomes a member of NGO and accepts a date with Vroom.
● Radikha Jha (Regina Jones) - The only married member of the group.
She married her college boyfriend Anuj for love, living with his traditional
family. Her mother-in-law hates her and always complains about her to
Anuj which makes Anuj berate at her, as he only trusts his mother. It is later
revealed that Anuj is having an extra-marital affair and so Radhika divorces
him and moves in with Esha.
● Military Uncle - Military Uncle lives alone and is having some problems
with his son and grandson, but at the end he realizes his mistake and
decide to apologize. Military Uncle works at the call centre to earn a little
money aside from the pension that he gets.
● Subhash Bakshi - Shyam's, Priyanka's, Esha's, Vroom's and Radhika's
boss. An idiot who is going to be transferred to Boston thus saving him
from getting fired. He took credit for a website manual which was made by
Shyam and Vroom.
● Shefali - Shyam's second ex-girlfriend. Shyam wanted to move on from
Priyanka and thus started dating Shefali. Shefali is a rather minor
character.
CONCLUSION
Chetan Bhagat is one of the celebrity among youths as well
as most of the reading community. Almost all of his books
are blockbuster besides this; he is a motivational speaker
and columnist

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