[ 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

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 (2011), (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. 2018] E ISSN 2348 –1269, PRINT ISSN 2349-5138 magnificence and her reckless self-assurance. She hitched, arranging children and I am most is well in tuned with the contemporary certainly not. I am werid" (220) mainstream society. She is a brisk less fatty and is She was especially aware of the social custom. very wise. She is full grown past her years with Through her dress performance, it is regards to connections and she is the person who unmistakable that Aarti fits in with the effectively persuades Govind to open up about his acknowledged ideals of feminist expected of emotions, association with his companions and Indian women. The name Aarti is additionally a future dreams. joke on the Hindu strict ritual of a night petition She lets him know, "You are older than me and a and right now we perceive how the champion of hundred times superior to me in math. Be that as the novel is intently attached to the conventional it may, here and there, I am much more Hindu strict movement. Right now, by one way or developing than you" (184). Vidya is the person another develops to produce a significant picture who starts their relationship and when Govind at of Indian social and conventional values with first wavers, she guarantees him, "I am turning respect to women. In this way,Aarti is an eighteen. I can do anything I desire ... I can cast a embodiment of free women of India. They are ballot in that political decision. I can have a loyal enough to uphold the customary estimation financial balance. I can wed ..." (184) of a male centric society and insightful enough to The collection and articulation of sexual want seek after one's dreams and want and in that lies comprises the attainment of opportunity. In her portrayal as the new Indian woman usually Bhagat'snovels, we see that affection, depicted in contemporary mainstream society. companionship, sex and relationship are RiyaSomani's character in the Half Girlfriend is convincing themes. Pre-marriage sex is an issue introduced as that of "the poor minimal rich around which the female hero effectively settles young lady. Originating from an affluent Marwari on her own choice and it means a place of business family with a location on Aurangzeb autonomy and decision in the connection among Road, in Lutyens' Delhi, probably the most male and female. This is as opposed to many of the extravagant zone, she originates from a world circumstance of the women heroes in novelsof totally different from that of the male hero prior period. MadhavJha. In Revolution 2020Aarti is the female hero got Much like Bhagat's other female heroes, her between the fondness of the two legends Gopal fantasy about considering music after school isn't and Raghav. She is the daughter of a District bolstered by her family as they need her "to wed Magistrate invested with rich magnificence, into a rich Marwari family" and "live like a ladylike delicacy and reasonableness. Aarti is sovereign" (32). depicted as eager enough to have her own Offering her own fantasy to him, she lets him decision of career however insufficient to join know: governmental issues which is generally viewed as I have this fantasy. I need to play music and sing ... a man's space. Also there is the fact that there is a in a bar in New York ... I would prefer not to be a possibility for her to be an MLA because of her celebrated vocalist or a demigod. I would prefer family's involvement with legislative issues. Gopal not to wed a very rich person. I simply need to has been enamored with her privilege from the sing in harmony, encompassed by energetic beginning yet she just sees him as her closest individuals. I need to claim a house in Manhattan, companion. Later Raghav too succumbs to her and my home, loaded up with novelsand music CDs. I she turns into his girlfriend. Despite the fact that need to play ball on ends of the week; I would she has never come up short on any male prefer not to look at twelve lehengas for my consideration, Aarti faces a similar male centric engagement. (Bhagat, Half Girlfriend 33) weight as different champions of Bhagat's books. Riya speaks to the new Indian woman in the She wants to turn into an air-lady yet her parents manner she thinks and holds herself. She is won't let her leave Varanasi and she is in this instructed, shrewd and certain about her own manner constrained to search for an occupation skin. She is an expert ball player, and is skilled inside Varanasi. In spite of the fact that she is with melodic ability. She knows her own brain and permitted to seek after a course in Aviation, she is clear in her ambition to be a vocalist. She can't persuade her parents to permit her to work wouldn't like to carry on with the sort of life her somewhere else. man centric family imagines for her. She She tragically says "My parents can't perceive any comprehends the sort of future that anticipates a reason why I need to work. They can't young lady like her from her locale and she settles comprehend why the DM's daughter needs to on her own choice to search for another option. trudge. Every one of my girlfriends are getting j290 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 Riya values her autonomy wildly and won't permit may confine Neha's opportunity in deciding to anybody to direct to her. In spite of the fact that have an association with a man, she evades she originates from a rich Marwari family, she around such restriction set upon her and astutely admits to Madhav's mom that the explanation she manages to follow up on her longing and decision has decided to work is on the grounds that "I need without having to totally cut ties with her family. to be autonomous" (162). Neha's record right now in opposition to At the point when she understands that her past prominent attitude, families keep on being solid which incorporates a bombed marriage will despite modernity and globalization and women consistently come in the middle of Madhav and assume a significant job in adjusting and keeping her bliss, she chooses to expel herself totally from up family ties. his life. Right now the courageous woman as so Ananya in Two States has both excellence and generous, as one who puts the enthusiasm of her insight. Ananya obviously assumes a major job in man before her own wants, Riya still complies Krish's life and is behind a lot of his prosperity. Be with the idea of the customary Indian women in that as it may, with all her knowledge and spite of her wild feeling of freedom which is a achievements, Ananya anyway is unfortunately characteristicnormal for the new Indian woman. mixed up in expecting that their relationship will After Madhav understands reality with regards to be acknowledged by their parents. In the novel her, he sets out on his mission to search for her. clearly Ananya can break the unattainable rank of Nonetheless, with all that she has experienced to gendered limitations, yet she likewise speaks to understand her fantasy and achieve the sort of the circle of safe family life. She is subordinate to free life she longed for, her life gives off an her dad's authority; her cling to her family is impression of being in immaculate request simply continually worried in the novel. after Madhav at last comes to discover her She is Her ability to put her family's respect and happy to allow marriage a second attempt notoriety in front of her own craving can be seen regardless of the terrible experience that she has when she at last turns down Krish and lets him had along these lines upholding the conventional know, "Will your mom change? Will her idea of a family above independence. predisposition towards me, towards South Priyanka is the primary courageous woman in the Indians, towards the young lady's side, change? ... I novel One Night @ The Call Center and plays the need to marry where my parents are treated as adoration enthusiasm of the storyteller hero equal" (233) Shyam. At the point when the novel opens Shyam Hence the projection of Ananya as one who is seems to be infatuated with Priyanka in spite of autonomous, savvy and able, whose dedication to the fact that they have of late separated. Priyanka family is undeniable makes her an ideal agent of is exhibited in the novel as a solid character and womanhood that adjusts both custom and someone who goes to bat for what she has faith in. modernity. She has an away from of what she needs to do In the novel One Night @ the Call Center, Esha with her life and she is happy to make a solid encounters sexual harassment at working effort to accomplish her objectives. She has a environment when she is urged by her specialist stressed association with her mom and this to have intercourse with a multiyear old architect contention with her mom stems generally from so as to verify a displaying contract. She their distinction in assessment of what is viewed surrenders to the weight yet is before long told as proper conduct and clothing for a young lady. that she is too short to ever be a slope model. Priyanka is depicted all through the novel as a Later to repay her, he sends her cash which causes praiseworthy character who thinks about the her to feel considerably progressively hopeless. welfare of her kindred women. Priyanka blessed On account of her appearance and self- with every one of these characteristics speaks to introduction clearly Esha is frequently generalized an ideal modern Indian woman who is taught, and pulls in undesirable consideration along these yearning with her very own psyche but then the lines setting her at a defenseless position. In the significance of the marriage issue can't be avoided last part of the novel, Shyam portrays that Esha by her. gives off an impression of being doing very well in Neha assumes the job of Hari's affection her new activity where she works with a NGO to enthusiasm in . She is a style gather pledges with corporate. structuring understudy and happens to be the He states, "I guess when male administrators hear daughter of Professor Cherian from the such a hot woman requesting cash for a decent Mechanical Engineering department. Albeit solid purpose, they can't state no. The vast majority of hold of man centric society and talks of custom them are likely gazing at her navel ring when they Research Paper IJRAR- International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews 헃291 [ VOLUME 5 I ISSUE 4 I OCT.– DEC. 2018] E ISSN 2348 –1269, PRINT ISSN 2349-5138 are marking the check" (252) This plainly economic progression and globalization, it is recommends regularly women in neoliberal likewise obvious from the novels talked about that working environments of new India here and the new Indian woman is as yet not liberated from there can't circumvent being generalized which male controlled society, dowry, sexual places them in a helpless position. harassment, sexism at working environment, For Radhika plainly she battles to keep up work work at home, which are the regular destinations life balance as she likewise needs to satisfy her of women's persecution subsequently throwing a commitments as the obedient daughter-in-law. long shadow on the celebratory talk of the new She speaks to the new Indian woman as one Indian woman as illustrative of changed India. whose budgetary inspiration originates from her Overall, Bhagat's novels anyway present the commitment to her family. In any case, for neoliberal picture of Indian women as conceivably Radhika, the steady strain to adjust work weight encouraging of a superior future. and household obligations negatively affects her In every novel of his, the relentless story is that as she gets addictive to antidepressants for her to the essential tendency of a white collar class look after rational soundness. female is to get hitched and settle down in the end. Be that as it may, in anticipating these pictures of The goals of women's conventional jobs inside the the New Indian woman, Bhagat'snovelslikewise persona of the new liberal Indian woman is landed points out a portion of the issues that the new at through a talk on women's intrinsic feeling of Indian woman needs to arrange and explore. As familial consideration, devotion to one's own much as women's opportunity to have a career family and hesitance to defy parental authority and the open doors stood to them through the which lays on man centric structure. Through this progression of economy is praised, it is fundamental talk, the message gives off an additionally obvious such goals carry with it impression of being that the new woman can be certain difficulties. Close by the talk of the new modern and emphatic while proceeding to occupy Indian woman is the steady strain of safeguarding generally recommended gender jobs as sister, Indian 'convention', personality and culture. It spouse and mother. gives the idea that the arrangement of the new Indian woman isn't completely ready to dispose of REFERENCES the friendly structures of mistreatment; rather, 1. Bhagat, Chetan. Five Point Someone. Rupa she is still subjected to existing and new types of Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2004. 2. Bhagat, Chetan. One Night @ the Call Center. male centric abuse. Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2005. Sunder Rajan in surveying the portrayal of the 3. Bhagat, Chetan. 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