• Contemporary issues in on@tcc:
Chetan Bhagat is one of the modern figure of the 21st century. His book “One night @ the call center” is about the contemporary issues in country India. We can see in his every work he talks about the youth and their problems. In this novel he talks about these six employees who work in Call center.
Chetan also Urban and Modern class society of Indian culture for example, the mother of Priyanka whose wish to her daughter marry to Ganesh because he is well settled in America and Radhika ,she is fed up from her mother-in-law because of the inflexibility of the society.
• Mannepean satire:
Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel. Mannepean Satire is a seriocomic genre. In the novel we find that these characters suffer from the problems in their life. In this novel Bhagat represent the idea of bossism that the boss of call centre who has a power over these six characters. And God making a call, Marriage of two different characters Radhika and Priyanka.
• Popular Literature and ON@TCC
Chetan Bhagat is popular writer of the age in his work he uses simple language that is very easy to understand for the readers. His books appeal to the readers widely accepted by the youngsters. This novel there is some of situation and like supernatural things that mostly not happened in reality or real life. In the ON@TCC,
• GOD’s call.
• More familiar or accepted moral teaching.
• Highly reflective of philosophy of life.
• Mystic element and supernatural element, like at the End of the novel.
• Narrative technique, etc.
• Globalization
Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations.
The title of the novel itself tells the effect of globalization in call center. Novel is based on the working people in Call Centre. Chatan Bhagat wants to show the Indians that who working in call center they just get good salary but it not give it a opportunity to do something else. Globalization effects culture , communication, politics and literature.
• Workers forced to change their names to Western one
e.g. like,
Shyam Mehra – Sam
Varun - Vroom
Radhika – Regima
Esha – Elina
Cultural Homogenization of workers in Call Center.
• Cyber Punk
Cyber Punk connected with science and technology. ON@TCC in main focus to cyber punk and how characters use to technology. Cyber punk was sign of science fiction. We can say it is postmodern science fiction. We can see in the novel like,
• Email
• “Bug” in MS Office
• FM Radio etc,
So we can say it classify as cyber punk novel.
• Self help book and on@tcc:
Self help book is about moral lesson, solution of problems and also helpful for build personal philosophy. Self –help books often focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationship, or aspects of the mind and human behavior. In On@tcc God’s call it shows the moral massage and it developed self confidence of characters.
