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have never seen a single Chetan Bhagat fan who loves this particular book, As I am not an admirer and also this is an edited version of Reader's Digest, that might be the reason I find this his best work.
Other day I attended a prePh, D synopsis presentation on antiglobalisation in Indian literature and this was one of the selected works, It seems I am not alone,

What is special about this one All his other works are quite evidently autobiographical in which IIT and its entrance examinations play a major part and so this is a fresh breeze.
More over, there is the added element of supernatural call me old fashioned, but I like a little bit of deu ex machina.
Sometimes an outer help is relieving in this fast paced world, Like in 'Canterbury Tales' Chetan has succeeded in bringing together a section of Indian society in a simple setting.
There is the weeping lover, sighing money maker, victimized daughter and daughterinlaw and the estranged father, On running after the much desired fame, money and reputation, they have forgotten something conscience and inner peace, This is their story of finding what is needed most simple with no adornments but truthful, Pressfor technical support.
Pressfor broken hearts,
Pressif your life has totally crashed,

Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.
S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patienceand accent managementthey help American consumers keep their lives running, Yet behind the headsets, everybodys heart is on the line,

Shyam Sam to his callers has lost his selfconfidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him.
Priyankas domineering mother has arranged for her daughters upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle, Esha longs to be a model but discovers its a horizontal romp to the runway, Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night, Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary, And Military Uncle nobody knows his real name sits alone working the online chat,

They all try to make it through their shiftsand maintain their sanityunder the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence.
But tonight is no ordinary night, Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks, Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything,

Chetan Bhagats delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural crosswires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.
This is the only book I have ever read where the author thanks Microsoft and MS Word in the acknowledgments section.


Pretty thin soup, overall, I picked it up because it's been very popular at the library, and I was interested in the depiction of what it's like to be a young person in India working at a call center.
Those dayinthelife details were the highlight of the book for me, Bhagat's main thrust is that his group of five characters need to face reality, stand up for themselves and have the courage to succeed and that India needs to do the same thing.
They come to this realization after God calls them, And if you've read the above sentence, you can pretty safely skip the book,
Very mixed feelings about this book, Start with the good things

which I am afraid are outweighed by the bad things, Bhagat writes well, characters are varied and resonate with real life, It gives a fascinating and others have said accurate insight into the world of the Indian Call Center, which encapsulates the change that the new urban young are experiencing.
There is a savage, if not very profound critique of consumerism, which I welcomed, Sometimes it is laughoutloud funny, the book picks up pace and as it reaches its climax it is a page turner.
I found myself scanning the sentences very fast, wanting to know what happens next, Most of it was read on two night journeys to and from Bangalore on a sleeper bus, so I am grateful that it helped the time pass quickly!.


Ok the negative stuff this is fairly superficial whilst pretending to be profound a pop parable if you like.
Adolescent in places, fissing with energy, giving you a sugar rush followed by a low sugar crash, It The tiresome antiAmericanism is puerile, ignorant and irresponsible, To say the the average/year old Indian is cleverer than the average adult American is absurd, and marks a line where Baghats nationalism moves over into xenophobia.
Unwittingly this prejudice mirrors a certain dangerous strain of Hindu nationalism which Baghat criticises in his other novels, His style also irritates the opening request to write down the answers to three questions, annoyed me, especially when repeated this belongs to the genre of adolescent selfhelp seminars not novels.
Also the fabricated scenario about how the novel came about night train to Dehliserves only to alienate the serious reader and reduces the writers credibility.
The ultimate irony for me is Bhagat mirrors the modern society he is claiming to critique, this novel is realityTVlite writing, or should I say mockumentary that can be expanded into a Bollywood film.


Finally and for me most seriously is the ridiculous use of God in the novel, This selfprojection as God is deeply narcissistic and trivialises the sacred, Chetan's God becomes a mouthpiece for his self help 'listen to the inner call' do what makes you fell good.
For me this is verging on blasphemy, Even his invoking of the Bhagavadgītā and the lord Krishna at the end as way to get out of all the absurdities he has introduced to the plot seem grossly manipulative.


The fact that I have these strong feelings shows that the book is worth engaging with even if you do not agree with much of it.
! I can understand why a lot of people really hate this novel: It's not that well written, it's unrelentingly insulting in its attitude toward Americans, God enters into the story in a rather goofy way, and the ending is lousy.
Still, I had a good time reading it, and that makes up for a lot, Bhagat may not be the best writer around, but, in a way, his immature writing style really captures the essence of the youth culture he's writing about.
It's more realistic than, say, Reality Bites, but not nearly as thoughtprovoking or cool, As someone who has worked in a call center, I can say that Bhagat gets a lot of things right here.
I can also say that people who only interact with Americans through a call center job would understandably have a pretty skewed idea about us.
So I can understand the aniAmerican element to a certain extent, But then God starts dumping on Americans too, and that's definitely taking things too far, especially when He implies that the call center can be saved by taking advantage of the fact that Americans are all cowards.
SPOILER ALERT If the ending of the story were the least bit realistic, the characters, rather than saving their jobs at the expense of the gullible American public, would all be immediately fired and then probably sued for their actions.
Still, despite its myriad flaws, One Night the Call Center is entertaining enough to be worth a look, Explicitly superficial

Read this one while I was in college while I was, Felt that the story was a bit funny but looking in hindsight, I feel that the book is quite juvenile.
Although the characters resonate a bit, I'd say that the plot is highly superficial and lacks any depth, Just one positive from the book the portrayal of the lives of the Indian youths in the corporate world otherwise nothing much appreciable.


./rounded tofrom my side, The very first Chetan Bhagat book I've read, The beginning of the book was quite captivating, but as I moved further I did not enjoy what I was reading.
The story as mentioned in the prologue was supposed to be written to represent the youths, But youths are not just limited with the emotions of seduction, lust, anger and jealousy, Depicting lives of the youths doesn't mean one must add sex scene to spice up the story,

Speaking of the characters and their attitude towards life, I think anger, aggression and egoism are the only things conveyed through their behavior.
Having a mean and dominating boss means you should break the computer screen at your work place out of frustration, like Vroom did.
The news of your ex getting married means you must be jealous about their happy life, like Shyam did.
This kind of negative behavior is conveyed through the characters,

Females! Females are disrespected the most in the book, Girlfriend is referred to as 'your chick' as if she were his pet or slave, How good does it sound if a coworker and boss stares at the navel ring of a female employee wearing a crop top So that is how you treat your friends and junior A guy having infinite girlfriends.
one month and then a new bunch of girlfriends the next month not a single in serious relationship! Secertly listening to the girls conversation when they are discussing something private in the restroom.
Tapping ex's phone call while she talks to her fiance, If you can't respect, please try to avoid using such lines for female sake!

Though Shyam's second girlfriend Shefali was mentioned the least, I found her presence annoying.
She was just so clingy and bothersome, Priyanka was always angry at every minor thing, Esha was cheerful but threw some puzzling tantrums every now and then, Radhika and Shyam were depressed people and made me feel depressed due to their thoughts, Vroom didn't care much about anything else except for the cars and bikes, But I hated the fact that he had numerous girlfriends just to have fun, And finally Bakshi, the boss was dominating and didn't bother himself to work at all, Toxic characters!

According to the prologue, the story was about these six people from a call center, getting a call from the God.
I frantically searched for this part, but to my dismay the main theme showed up after I completed reading half of the book.
It was stated that there was something to learn from the story and I found nothing, except abounding amount of swearwords being used on every page and after every ten seconds.
Yes, I learned some cuss words! The book disenchanted me, One last word for the storyline I am left with is just 'gross'!,