Chetan Bhagat- a Maker of ‘Change’ or Stereotype and Gender Roles?

Volume : (9), Issue : 02, June - 2022

Abstract : Chetan Bhagat is one of the most renowned modern Indian English novelists. Postmodern themes like as youth aspirations, love, sex, marriage, urban middle class sensibility, and issues of corruption, politics, and education, as well as their impact on contemporary Indian society, repeat frequently throughout his fictions. He has mostly depicted the contemporary urban social environment of Indian society in all of his fictions. Though Chetan Bhagat's fictions are romantic in nature, present Indian society and its key themes are central to all of his works. In his fictional writings, he has centred on modern challenges affecting middle- class families. All of his major protagonists are sensitive adolescents who refuse to compromise with society's common scenarios.

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