Thinking Activity: One Night @ The Call Center
About the Author :-
Chetan Bhagat born 22 April 1974 new Delhi. Chetan Bhagat is an India author and columnist, known for his India - English novels about young middle class Indians. Bhagat was included in time magazine's list of world's 100 most influential people in 2010.
His novel and none fiction work list :-
1) Five point someone
2) One night @ call center
3) The 3 mistakes of my life
4) 2 States
5) Revolution 2020
6) What young India wants
7) Half Girlfriend
8) Making India awesome
9) One India girl
10) The girl in room-105
11) India positive
One Night @ the call center or ON@TCC is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. the novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in cal center in Gurgaon, Haryana. it takes place during the span of one night, in which all of the leading character confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change. the story takes a melodramatic and decisive turn through a literal Deus ex Machina, in call of God. apart from that there is air of realism along with fantasy, Magic realism, chutney fication of words and beautiful narrative technique with prologue and Epilogue.
* Effect of Globalization in the novel.
"Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information trade and investment and aided by information technology"
" Globalization is on longer a theretical concept; it is a glaring reality, impinging upon almost every aspect of human existence"
The title of the novel it self tells about the effect of globalization in call center. in this novel writer wants to give message to the Indians that who working in call center they just get good salary but it not give it a opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity Americanizes from of English in call centers.
In this novel we workers forced to change their names to western one e.g. like,
Shyam Mehra - Sam Mercy
Varun Malhotra - Victor
Radhika Jha - Regima Jones
Esha singh - Elina
Chetan Bhagat thinks that "on a different level, i began to think about the number individuals who sacrifice their creativity and skills and join call center merely because of the fact pay packet on offer." Vroom cannot stand two things: the racists and the Americans. Vroom thinks Americans get to act superior to us "not because they are better people. but because their country is rich and ours is poor. that is the only damn reason. because the losers who have run our country for the last fifty year couldn't do better than make India one of the poorest on the earth"
They themselves are to be blamed for it but one can not deny that globalization is also responsible for it. Due to slack in software industry the call center wanted to cut down the number of employees in its main bay and that brings all the people under pressure.
Eroding values means compromising attitude in the novel character of Esha who getting modelling assignments, gets ready to sleep with an influential person in the concerned field. when even after this compromise she doesn't get a way in, she realises the horrible mistake she made.
Thomas Friedman gives definition about Globalization
"Globalization is the integration of capital, technology and information across national borders, in a why that is creating a single global market, and to some degree, a global market"
In this book he gives three eras of Globalization
1) Globalization 1.0
2) Globalization 2.0
3) Globalization 3.0
Self help books in the society. self help books are written with the intention to instruct readers on a number of personal problems. they take their name from self help, but are also known and classified under self improvement, a term that is a modernized version of self help. in the novel, all the character are facing a one or another kind of problems in their life. self help books also focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationship, or aspects of the mind and human behavior which believers in self help feel can be controlled with effort.
The title of the novel it self tells about the effect of globalization in call center. in this novel writer wants to give message to the Indians that who working in call center they just get good salary but it not give it a opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity Americanizes from of English in call centers.
In this novel we workers forced to change their names to western one e.g. like,
Shyam Mehra - Sam Mercy
Varun Malhotra - Victor
Radhika Jha - Regima Jones
Esha singh - Elina
Chetan Bhagat thinks that "on a different level, i began to think about the number individuals who sacrifice their creativity and skills and join call center merely because of the fact pay packet on offer." Vroom cannot stand two things: the racists and the Americans. Vroom thinks Americans get to act superior to us "not because they are better people. but because their country is rich and ours is poor. that is the only damn reason. because the losers who have run our country for the last fifty year couldn't do better than make India one of the poorest on the earth"
They themselves are to be blamed for it but one can not deny that globalization is also responsible for it. Due to slack in software industry the call center wanted to cut down the number of employees in its main bay and that brings all the people under pressure.
Eroding values means compromising attitude in the novel character of Esha who getting modelling assignments, gets ready to sleep with an influential person in the concerned field. when even after this compromise she doesn't get a way in, she realises the horrible mistake she made.
Thomas Friedman gives definition about Globalization
"Globalization is the integration of capital, technology and information across national borders, in a why that is creating a single global market, and to some degree, a global market"
In this book he gives three eras of Globalization
1) Globalization 1.0
2) Globalization 2.0
3) Globalization 3.0
In one night @ the call center we see some positive and negative effect of the Globalization.
* Self - Help book and ON@TCC :-
Self help books in the society. self help books are written with the intention to instruct readers on a number of personal problems. they take their name from self help, but are also known and classified under self improvement, a term that is a modernized version of self help. in the novel, all the character are facing a one or another kind of problems in their life. self help books also focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationship, or aspects of the mind and human behavior which believers in self help feel can be controlled with effort.
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