Book Review : One night at the call center

Review of the Book : One night at the call center 

The novel on@cc is written by Chetan Bhagat. He  consider as a popular writer in India. He specially known for his Indian English novels about young urban middle class people in India. The reason behind his popularity is Simple English language  because of it many people started reading English. Second he writes about problems related Youth.

    The novel opened in very interesting way. The writer put one activity to gave 3 answer before reading the novel.

1) One thing I fear
2) One thing that makes me angry
3) One thing I do not like about my self.

This activity helping us in identifying our strength and weakness. By doing this type of mental process it help us to overcome from  our weakness. It is very innovative way to enter in the novel. It is  very well connected with the novel. 

Chetan Bhagat makes very good use of prologue and epilogue in his novel. In prologue, writer himself came as character and talked with the lady who told the story on the condition that he has to write a book on it. The writer presented in prologue and told that how they got inspiration. After heard the story he collected deep information about call center employees.  In epilogue described the alternative reading. The lady gave alternative reading of the novel by replacing God lines with Military uncle. The writer has lack of Historical sense ,  social and philosophical sense as well as Mythical sense. He was not able to justified his narrative.

One night at the call center also consider as Popular Literature.Popular literature means those writings intended for the Masses and favour with large audiences. It is different from artistic literature. It only designed for the entertainment. Popular literature has ,

1) Lack of deep philosophy

2) Lack of deep spirituality

3) Not deals with abstract problems

4) Lack of morality / humanity

5) Not challenges the belief of people

6) unacceptable solutions

7) Lack of intellectualism 

   So popular literature has this kind of structure of the works. In the one night at the call center shows the solutions of the problems through character of God. It has not intellectual solution of problems. The call from God is not deeply connected anywhere. The solution of problems not acceptable in social formation. It not challenges people to  think upon their believes. The solution of problems goes like drama. It is  not  giving  deep philosophy and intellectual solution. Virginia woolf 's novel has deep intellectual and philosophical ideals. It shows the intellectual growth of writer while here writer still not go deeply in the novel. The solution of problems are like makeover not real intellectual  growth of people.  Chetan Bhagat consider as the popular writer because he deals with problems of common people. He using very simple English language because of it many people can start reading English novels. It makes him popular writer. 

In the novel describes various use of technology. The novel is consider as Cyberpunk novel. Cyberpunk is the post modern scientific genre. It is connected with science and technology, hackers ,  cybernetics and information. In the novel characters deals with email ,  bug , radio, Ms word . In the novel corporate world controls the job of workers. Vroom and shyam used bug in MS office as virus attack for terrified American people. It increased the calls in call center and save the jobs of workers. Vroom used mail to  blackmail his boss bakshi. So with the help of teachnology everything was solved. Technology become the resolving  force in the novel. Thus the novel can be categorised as cyberpunk novel. 

 In the novel also talked about the complexity in the relationship. Also it talked about the condition of woman in the society through the characters of Isha , Priyanka and Radhika. They were mistreated and cheated by men. This novel also focus on the problems on the Youth. 

   In the novel talked about Globalisation. This whole story is deals with effect of globalisation. All the characters works in the call center. They have to deal with foreigner client. They have to slove their problems. In the global world economy is at  the center. These employees insulted by foreigner though they have to speak sugar-coated language. It shows the effect of globalisation that sake of  profit and money people could do anything.  So this novel focus on many things which happens in popular time. 

One night at the call center also consider as Self help book. A self help book is one that is written with the intention to interact it's readers on slowing personal problems. It based on teaching moral lessons and build on philosophy.  In this book Chetan Bhagat focus on the real life problems. Shyam Protegonist almost lost his self confident and love, Military uncle who wants to talk with his grandson , Radhika cheated by her husband and demadable mother in law. All are fed up with  their boss. They all most lost everything in their life. 

The call from God can be considered as, "Inner voice ". The call from God helps characters to know their problems and find out their solutions by themselves. God's call just help them to find the problems and their solutions by showing right path. It's like guidance. All have problems in their lives but the right guidance gives them confident to fight with it. Like this , the call from God gave confident to characters to fight with their problems.

God gave the message that four things need to become successful : 

1) Intelligence 

2) Imagination 

3) Self confidence 

4) Failure 

Thus the book deals with the real problems of the people. The call from God or Inner call gave self confidence and guidance to six people. It shows the right path. Everyone has this kind of problems in their life. By reading this book it help them to know their problem and find it's solution. Also it gives self confidence to people.