Key words: new era, human quest, social contradictions, emancipation or empowerment or degradationĪbstract Chetan Bhagat is one of the most influential fiction writers of contemporary Indian English literature. It is also a study on the challenges and conflicts faced by modern women in the society with regard to their career, marriage and family. This paper is an attempt to bring out the feminine anxieties and insecurities in corporate sectors. The novelist claims women empowerment as one of the optimistic upshots of globalization but at the same time, his novel upsets our traditional culture which is an unavoidable impact of globalization, modernization and corporate exploitation. His second book One Night The Call Centre revolves around a group of six call centre employees working in Connexions Call Centre in Gurgeon, Haryana. Chetan Bhagat, a famous successful Indian author of this century, uses his novels as tools to express his views and opinions about the social contradictions in the society. Indian novelists also dealt with new subjects of human existence and man’s quest for self in all its complicated situations. This resulted in a World Literature, which responded to the new era, dealing with the different gloomy faces of modern society. Indian English fiction shifted its focus from the public to the private sphere after 1960s because of the mass destruction caused by the Second World War.
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