Analysis Of Three Mistakes Of My Life By Chetan Bhagat

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Chetan Bhagat as viewed an icon, role model and a top-class writer in the sight of the present youth. He has written seven blockbuster novels so far namely – Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Centre (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), What Young India Wants (2012) and Half Girlfriend (2014). Interestingly all most all novels of Chetan Bhagat are associated to the lives of contemporary Indian youth. Some of the major themes that are handled by Chetan Bhagat in his novels are – love, youth problems, career, ambition, work pressure in jobs, stress and pressure in the minds of students in their education, corruption and so on.
Chetan Bhagat has vividly portrayed the theme of love triangle, corruption and ambition of the three major protagonists in his novel Revolution 2020. It is the story of three childhood friends – Gopal, Raghav and Aarti who
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What do you do in a system where almost anyone with power is corrupt? India has suffered enough. From childhood we are told India is a poor country. Why? There are countries in this world where an average person makes more than fifty times that an average Indian makes. Fifty times? Are their people fifty times more capable than us? Does an Indian farmer not work hard? Does an Indian student not study? Do we not want to do well? Why, why are we then doomed to be poor?” (pg. – 205).This has to stop. “We have to clean the system…It could take Ten years. I call it Revolution 2020, the movement that finally shake the muck of India…When Indian will get justice and the guilty will be punished. And it will all begin in Varanasi” (pg. – 206).
Such is the mind set and inner feeling of Raghav. As it goes without saying “pen is mightier than sword”. Raghav writes the harsh reality of corrupted people and politicians which results his own small press is ruined in the hands of MLA Shukla’s

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