A Complete Replica of Contemporary Indian Society in the Fictional Works of Chetan Bhagat: A Detailed Literary Analysis of his Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The Three Mistake of My

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Vikram Patel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Call Center ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Fiction Writers

hetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. Postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected thematic concerns in his fictions. In all his fictions, he has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social milieu of Indian society. Though the fictions of Chetan Bhagat are romantic in nature, contemporary Indian society and its major issues are the chief of the concerns of all his fictions. He has focused on the contemporary issues of middle class family in his fictional works. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of society. Most of the characters are like caricatures that represent one or the other vice or virtue of the contemporary Indian society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions.

scholarly journals REPLICA OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SOCIETY IN CHETAN BHAGAT’S TWO STATES: THE STORY OF MY MARRIAGE AND REVOLUTION 2020: LOVE CORRUPTION AMBITION

2017 ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Jagdish Joshi ◽  
Vikram Patel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Present Article ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Fiction Writers

Chetan Bhagat is one of the most read fiction writers of Indian English literature. Though his fictions are romantic in nature, postmodern subjects like youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibilities, and issues related to corruption, politics, education and their impact on the contemporary Indian society are recurrently reflected as thematic concerns in his fictions. So and also he depicted the urban and rural milieu of contemporary Indian society. All of the chief protagonists of his works are sensitive youth and they do not compromise with the prevalent situations of the society. The author has a mastery to convince the reader about the prevalent condition of society so that one can easily reproduce in mind, a clear cut image of contemporary Indian society. The present article is a sincere endeavor to present the detailed literary analysis of the select fictions of Chetan Bhagat keeping in mind how the contemporary Indian society has been replicated in the fictions.

scholarly journals Economic Adversity and Disgrace in Untouchable

NUTA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Bhim Nath Regmi
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Concerns

Mulk Raj Anand has created a unique position as a Humanist and a social writer in India writing in English. He has contributed in the development of Indian English Literature and focuses on caste issue, economic adversity and disgrace rooted in Indian society. He has public concerns and humanity for the subjugated people and his characters represent the social reality of suppressed people of India. His first novel Untouchable is an account of a day in the life of its protagonist- Bakha, an untouchable sweeper. He describes the depressed conditions of the untouchables, their immitigable hardships and physical and mental agonies almost with the meticulous skill of historical raconteur

scholarly journals Globalization, Sharia law, and cultural hybridity: A case of marriage preferences of young Bangladeshis

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Szarota ◽  
Ewa Rahman ◽  
Katarzyna Cantarero
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
University Undergraduates

This contribution is one of the few psychological studies analyzing the marriage preferences of Bangladeshi urban youths. Our goal was to demonstrate that the line between traditional and “modern” marriage is no longer clear-cut and document the importance of social status and religion in shaping the life priorities of young, educated Bangladeshis. The sample (N = 205) consisted of unmarried university undergraduates aged 19-26. Participants were presented with three marriage scenarios: a traditional marriage arrangement, a hybrid model based on mutual attraction and family support, and finally, a Western-style love marriage. Generally, the Western marriage arrangements were rated more positively than the other models. Surprisingly, there were no significant differences between preferences for a hybrid and a traditional model. Additionally, participants from a higher social milieu with lower levels of religiosity accepted love marriages more eagerly than middle-class students.

Unshackling the tribal women in Indian English Literature: dreams and visions

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dr. Shreeja Sharma ◽  
Prof. Shubhra Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Women In Literature ◽  
Mahasweta Devi ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Tribal Women ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Kamala Markandaya ◽  
Socially Excluded

The marginalised tribal women comprise the weakest section of the Indian society. It is a sad reality that their identity remains weak, unvoiced and largely unexplored. Invigorating them would enhance the collective national capability as it will carry  justice, equity and development to the most vulnerable segment of the nation, thereby reinforcing and the frailest of its stalk. The portrayal of tribal women in literature can go a long way in spreading awareness about the cause, not only on the national, but also on an international scale. Writing on these marginalised, poor, and socially excluded women can in the long run, change the perception of the society and bring to attention the neglected lot, integrating them rightfully with society. Prominent writers including Mahasweta Devi, Kamala Markandaya and Gita Mehta among others have made important contributions in this area. While the tribal narratives voice the concerns of the tribals, there still remains lot of room for exploring and  expressing the concerns of these women for a feminist rendition . This paper examines the potential of writings on the female tribal protagonist.  

Reflection Of Indian English And Philosophy In Writings Of R.K Narayan In English Literature

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 494-497
Author(s):  
RAJESWARI SURISETTY ◽  
M. MARY MADHAVI
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Real Time ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Indian Soil ◽  
Indian English ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Middle Class People

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, a well-known South Indian writer, creator of a fictional town ‘Malgudi” developed a sense of interest among middle- class people in India to read short stories in English. He is the spell caster of encompassing Indianism into English literature through his writings. This celebrated Indian novelist brought an aroma of Southern Indian Coffee into English and indianized it through his fictional stories which connect with real time situations of a common Indian. This distinguished writer captivated readers through his meticulous mastery over foreign language on Indian soil. His short stories are the best paradigm to understand Indian English that is entangled with beliefs, traditions, culture to an extent superstitions existed in the routes of Indian lives. Contrast between the lives of Western and Indians’ lives in various aspects are illustrated through his short stories and novels. The present paper tries to highlight Indianized contexts into English literature by this outstanding writer. It also attempts to show how characters in the short stories of Narayan are related to Karmic philosophy.

scholarly journals Oleg Alexander Kerensky, 16 April 1905 - 25 June 1984

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 321-353
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
Male Line ◽  
The University

Oleg Alexander Kerensky was born in St Petersburg on 16 April 1905 into a well-to-do middle-class family. His father was the Alexander Kerensky who, after the February 1917 revolution in Russia, became a member of the Provisional Government formed by the Duma, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War and of the Navy. In July of that year he headed the reorganized government as Prime Minister until the Bolsheviks took over power in the October Revolution. Before then Alexander Kerensky had been a barrister and, from 1912, a member of the Duma, where he had become leader of the Trudoviki group, the moderately left opposition to the Tsarist régime. In the male line, Oleg’s great-grandfather was an orthodox priest. Oleg’s paternal grandfather, Feodor M. Kerensky, not wishing to follow the family tradition of becoming a priest, went to the University of Kazan and became first a teacher, then a school inspector, and then headmaster of two high schools in Simbirsk, one for boys and the other for girls. Feodor’s wife was a general’s daughter and the niece of a professor of divinity in the University of Kazan. When Alexander Oleg’s father, was nine years old, Feodor was further promoted to be the Inspector of Education for the then very recently acquired province of Turkestan, so the family went to live in Tashkent and the children did not see European Russia again until the time came to go to university in St Petersburg.

scholarly journals Gender and Religion in Kamala Das’ Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 5699-5702
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Indian English ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Voice

Kamala Das was one the illustrious poets in the history of Indian English literature. She represented a typical middle class Indian woman’s dual conflict of ideas through the portrayal of her own persona with the backdrop of Indian life and culture in her versatile poetry. Kamala Das was a champion of woman’s secret longings, aspirations and desires. Her poems are full of her personal feelings as a woman and the realization of own self. The present paper focuses on the voice she lends for every woman agonized in marriage and the reawakening of her soul, which she submits to God.

From Silent Suffering to Strong Self Identity: A Study of Anees Jung’s Breaking the Silence

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Dr. M. Sandra Carmel Sophia
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
True Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Set Up

Anees Jung is one of the widely read post–independence Indian English women writers who write consciously of the issues that concern the educated middle-class women in Indian society. She attempts to closely analyze man-woman relationship within the family and the contemporary social set-up. She focuses on the captivating problems and the suffocating environs of her female characters who struggle hard in this malicious and male-dominated world to discover their true self identity. Jung does not advocate separation from the partner but a diplomatic assertion of one’s identity from silent suffering.

scholarly journals Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Critique

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Avinash L. Pandhare
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Small City ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Clear Objective

In Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, her debut novel, Kiran Desai has experimented in the making of a comic fable.  She presents a hilarious story of life, love, and family relationships - simultaneously capturing the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience.  The story is set in a small Indian but fictitious town called Shahkot.  Sampath is the protagonist who belongs to a middle class family.  After experiencing drastic boredom in his life, Sampath decides to spend his life in trees.  And then after, the story reveals its real mood.  At a deeper level, the novel displays the theme of alienation, magic realism, rebellion, etc.  Desai is a masterful dialogue writer, and she uses this skill to great effect in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.  She infuses the dialogue with local idioms and paints a vivid portrait of life in a small city in India.  With a clear objective of writing a comic satire, she also makes a satirical attack against the creation of gurus in Indian society.

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