This compendium of 19 papers attempts to provide deep insight into the life and works of Chetan Bhagat, one of the best-selling English novelists of India. It critically analyses the society and popular culture, state of corruption, humour, the present-day dynamics of male-female relationship, cultural confluence, the human conditions in info-tech society, and the ethics of sex, marriage and morality as depicted in the novels of Chetan Bhagat.
Chetan Bhagat’s novels, studied in this book, include Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Centre, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage, and Revolution 2020. Select essays and columnsof Chetan Bhagat have also been critically examined.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.K. Dhawan
R.K. Dhawan teaches English at S.B.S. College, University of Delhi. He has lectured extensively at many universities, including those at Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Singapore, Tunisia, Italy and Australia. He has published several articles and books. He is the editor of The commonwealth Review, a bi-annual journal devoted to the new literatures.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tapan K. Ghosh
Tapan Kumar Ghosh is Reader in English at Tarakeswar Degree College, Burdwan University, West Bengal. He has had a distinguished academic career. He obtained Ph.D. for research on the fiction of Arun Joshi in 1993. His first book Arun Joshi’s Fiction: The Labyrinth of Life was published in 1996. A perceptive critic of Indian English literature, he has published scholarly articles on Rabindranath Tagore, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Kesavan and other writers. At present he is co-editing a critical volume on Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.
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