Chetan Bhagat's 'one night @ the call center

This blog is my part of classroom activity on One night @ call center by Chetan Bhagat.

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(1) Contemporary issues in on@tcc:

Chetan bhagat a contemporary Indian Author has touches upon some contemporary issues of society as well Nation also. Like Globalization,Anti- american sentiments, damage to Indian Economy systems etc. Apart from that Youth, their burring problem of joblessness or Bossism, Love/ arranged marriage, breakup & patch up, Bossism, exploitation in modeling or other sectors, OLD MORALITY- NEW MORALITY, family values, constant fight of parents and its effect on children, low self esteem, emotional blackmailing, hire & fire work culture, anti- American sentiments etc.

(2) One night at the call center as a cyberpunk novel

Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre. Cyber Punk connected with science and technology. It features higher science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and Mega Corporation, The characters deals with cyber technology. Vroom hacks Bakshi's email and writes email to Esah on his behalf. The American's are terrorized with the help of bug in MS Office as virus attack on Internet . In the world of technology heroes are hiker like Shyam. Machine is controlling human beings. Bakshi controlling heroes and other high teach and law life. Character dealing withBug, FM radio, Email, Internet (computer). So we can say it classify as Cyber punk novel.

 Its a new wave in science fiction A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality.A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

 Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and megacorporations, in this novel one Gmail is creating a conflict and gives the twist to the plot. Vroom and shyam are hack the Mr. Bakshie's Gmail account. 

(3)  ON@tcc as a self-help book. 

Self help book is about moral lesson, solution of problems and also helpful for build personal philosophy. The meaning of Self-Help Book is to self improvement, Genre – non fictional book. Self –help books often focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationship, or aspects of the mind and human behavior. In On@tcc God’s call it shows the moral massage and it developed self confidence of characters.

Here we see that all character present the real life situation, of the people. In the story we see that character of Shyam, who almost lost his love. Character of Radhika is in an unhappy marriage with demanding mother-in-law. Character of Military Uncle, who wants to talk to his grandson. Character of Mr.Bakshi, who boss of the call center, all hate them because of their cruel and somehow sadist behavior.

We see that all character suffer in their life. Also these all problems we find in our real life and also in the society. With help of the type of book we find solution of the problem. Chetan Bhagat’s present the real life situation of the people and how they all manage the life.

We can say that Chetan's God becomes a mouthpiece for his self help - 'listen to the inner call'. It is about inner call or inner voice. A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. God’s call it is a kind of a help, or it can be interpreted in many ways. God’s call pays the path, he shows just the path, but then all characters help themselves. In this way we can take this book as a self help book also.

ü God's message to the group

ü Four things needed for success:

ü ‐ a medium amount of intelligence,

ü ‐ a bit of imagination

ü ‐ self‐confidence

ü ‐ Facing, suffering failure

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center. We see that how Chetan Bhagat present the people life situation. In the story we see that all character suffer in their life. Many problems in their life. But then they all live in the life.

(4)One night at the call center as popular literature. 

• characteristics of the popular literature 

 i.      Popular literature commonly lacks a sustained plot, worked out with close regard to cause and effect.

                                                         

  ii.      Still more characteristically it lacks the study of character and the intellectual analysis of such varied problems as occupy the fiction of the present age.

                                                      

  iii.      The popular romances lay their stress chiefly on incident and adventure or simple intrigue, and set forth only the more familiar and accepted moral teachings.

                                                       

 iv.      They represent, on the whole, an instinctive or traditional, rather than a highly reflective, philosophy of life.

                                                           

v.      For all these reasons they have come to be regarded chiefly as the literature of children; a natural result, perhaps, of the fact that they originated largely in the childhood of civilization or among the simple peoples in more advanced ages.

                                                        

vi.      It does not raise or answer abstract questions; it assumes that man knows what he needs to know in order to live.

ON@tcc can be considered as popular literature because it does not have proper plot structure, there is plot between love and break up-love of Shyam and Priyanka. It does not have that deep philosophy about life. And character blindly believing in god’s call. You do not require intellectual understanding after reading it. Plot follow simple story line like, love and breakup. All character has some kind of the problem with their family member. So it shows modern mind set of the people which Chetan Bhagat very well represented in his novel. So we can say that this novel is come in the category of popular literature.