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Indian Woman-The Icon of New India in the Novels of Chetan Bhagat [ VOLUME 5 I ISSUE 4 I OCT.– DEC. 2018] E ISSN 2348 –1269, PRINT ISSN 2349-5138 INDIAN WOMAN-THE ICON OF NEW INDIA IN THE NOVELS OF CHETAN BHAGAT Dr. Rajtinder SinghJhanji Principal, A.S. College, Khanna. Received: October 08, 2018 Accepted: November 09, 2018 ABSTRACT The name of Chetan Bhagat is profoundly perceived today in the field of Indian English fictionas the voices of a generation of Middle class Indian youth facing the choices and frustrations that come with the prospect of growing wealth and advancement. This besidesBhagat's fictions speak to the possibility of the new Indian woman whose development in mainstream society matched with India's economic advancement, and catches their evolving subjectivity. The post-progression time starts the possibility of the 'new Indian woman' during the 1990s with the picture of the 'modern', emancipated and liberated women integral to the national undertaking and India's yearnings to be a worldwide economic force. With the developing urbanization and globalization, various possibilities have opened up all around. Men and women are no more found over the span of the old vision which marksmen as predominant and women as second rate. Right now, so far corrupt women are given their due spot and respect. Keywords: Society, novel, men, women, India, etc. 1. INTRODUCTION vivacity viz. normal female nature. The spot of Born in mid seventies of the last century, activity of his novels is set in the perplexity of ChetanBhagat is a living Indian author who has Metropolitan Indian urban areas. With the composed well known novelslike Five Point developing urbanization and globalization, Someone-What not to do at IIT (2004), One Night @ various possibilities have opened up all around. The Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life Men and women are no more found over the span (2008), 2 States: The Story of My Marriage (2009), of the old vision which marksmen as unparalleled Revolution 2020 (2011), Half Girlfriend (2014) and women as second rate. respectively and an assortment of expositions titled What Young India Wants (2012). Bhagat is 2. THE EMERGING NEW INDIAN WOMAN considered more to be a young symbol than only Well known fictions are viewed as one of the an author. Bhagat's writings are more ladylike significant social locales that draw in with than manly. He gives voice and shows his interests changing gender subjectivities. Bhagat manifests more in his women characters as compared to the the untiring efforts of his characters to come out male. Like Shakespeare, he also has the right to be of the slough of melancholy. He portrays his censured for making preferable courageous women as the true revelers of the human life. women over men. Bhagat's additional chronicle of Adversity does not stay with them for long. It does his anxiety for women characters discloses to us not subdue their will to enjoy life. They very soon the way that means towards women emerge out of it and start delighting in the life. All empowerment can be believed to speed.Bhagat the women characters of Chetan are intelligent claims women empowerment as one of the sure and have the capacity to make their own choices impacts of globalization; simultaneously, it is and ready to accept challenges and risk no matter indisputable that his novels conclusively give us what their decision is. social stuns which are a normal stun of Along these lines, RupalOza has likewise globalization, modernization, and business recognized that the post-advancement time misuse. These progressions speak of the terrible started the idea of the 'new Indian woman' during cry of a greater part of universal Hindu women in the 1990s which introduces the picture of the Indian culture. Accordingly, it is comprehended 'modern', emancipated and liberated woman in that being under the appearance of freedom, there mainstream society. This idea was viewed as is a positive degeneration in the status of women imperative to the national undertaking as it is as voiced forward in the novels of ChetanBhagat. attached to India's desires to be viewed as a Chetan additionally composes opened segments worldwide economic force. for driving newspapers, reflecting on youth and Oza affirms that "Inside open social talks the national development. His characters are social Indian woman was deliberately made to be dissidents and his womanly heroes help us to modern, speaking to globalizing India, yet "Indian" remember the female characters of Shaw for their by being tied down in 'center' values"(Oza 31). j288 IJRAR- International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews Research Paper [VOLUME 5 I ISSUE 4 I OCT. – DEC. 2018] e ISSN 2348 –1269, Print ISSN 2349-5138 http://ijrar.com/ Cosmos Impact Factor 4.236 The picture of the respectful, benevolent mother again found uniquely in the residential world but regularly reflected in many of the writings of prior on the other hand apparently participates generation was supplanted by the picture the effectively in the expert and open spaces. Right newly 'liberated' woman who was brought into now the new Indian woman needs to locate the the open circle. Interestingly, many of the business correct harmony among convention and fiction composed particularly post progression modernity. including Bhagat'snovels,reflect post- It is seen that a developing number of white collar millennialIndian woman and her urban life. A new class women in India have joined the open setting of living and way of life decisions and, thus, workforce because of extension of administration horde new potential personalities. As opposed to and private sectors following India's fuse into the the prior female stories, the standards of social worldwide economy. Their noticeable quality and weight and desire appear to have moved with the proficient life is significantly more perceived by women currently getting them now more media and mainstream society. This brings up an intrinsically bound to weights of globalization, intriguing issue of how women with regards to economics, and the genuine probability of India are seen to profit by the basic adjustment individual decision. Be that as it may, the two arrangement of the economy or whether interest generations of stories investigate being a woman in paid employment has improved their general in the Indian society. feeling of empowerment. Corresponding to this, The presentation of the 'new Indian woman' an examination is attempted how the idea of the likewise came when the Indian gender social 'New Indian woman' is engendered and structure was experiencing change, as an ever recognized in Bhagat's fictions and how limits of increasing number of women were seen taking cultural agreeableness is re-imagined in new India part in the open space and Indian society all in all through their job as a female. was encountering a staggering nearness of ChetanBhagat has aptly depicted the element of imported merchandise and western pictures. imperativeness in his women focal characters. His These encounters made "social uneasiness, woman characters have faith in an outright, an starting expanding fears of 'Westernization'" ideal, an unadulterated and a respectable which came about in the simultaneious "ascent of opportunity. They generally take creativity in the globalization and Hindu strict fundamentalism" romance. Hence, they break the social decorum – (Mclachlin 7). man ever pursues woman. They are the chasers The mid nineties which saw India's economic and the men are the pursued. Bhagat is the main progression likewise mark the rise of the new writer among his peers who has portrayed woman Indian woman who is commended as a symbol of as the tracker and the man as the uncovering the new India in media and mainstream society. under her visually impaired enthusiasm to suit his Bhagat'snovelsare aware of woman essence in the motivation. His women utilize all strategy to serve youthful India. This is for the most part in light of the female impulse. the fact that as India coordinates into the worldwide economy, a significant number of 3. WOMEN PROTAGONIST IN BHAGAT’S women particularly those having a place with the NOVELS working class have profited by the extension of Bhagat's development of women subjectivity with the private division which offers them remarkable regards to the 'New India' can be contended that wages and open doors for more prominent as a book, his novels contribute in the proceeding opportunity of versatility not experienced by the with development of the new Indian woman, prior generations. The picture of the consistent representing her as both modern subject and and subservient gendered subject right now in a conveyor of the Indian custom. The portrayal of changing country is never again practical. It tends the new Indian woman in mainstream fiction, for to be seen that the digressive production of the example, Bhagat mirrors the rise of new idea of the new Indian woman is firmly identified subjectivities for Indian women that are tied, in with the white collar class talk on globalization specific ways, to older ones. and modernity whereby the working class keeps In the novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Vidya who is on characterizing their modernity through certain the more youthful sister of Ishaan plays the conventional standards and practices while affection enthusiasm of Govind the storyteller likewise embracing qualities, for example, more hero. In the novel, she has quite recently finished noteworthy freedom, confidence and solid her class XII and has chosen to take a year off to commitment to vocations and expert set herself up for medicinal selection test. Govind development. The new Indian woman is never can't resist the opportunity to respect her Research Paper IJRAR- International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews 헃289 [ VOLUME 5 I ISSUE 4 I OCT.– DEC.
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