Exploring the Extravagant Society: A Study of Shining India through New Theme and Settings in Postmillennial Indian English Fiction

The Paper attempts to make a critical study of shining new India through the evaluation of new themes and settings in postmillennial Indian English fiction. Lifestyle of postmillennial Indian youth is submerged in Western Café culture, dating culture, nightclub culture. Keeping track with rapid social transformation the theme and setting of Indian English fiction is also making adjustments in order to cater to the contemporary youth. Therefore, shopping malls, restaurants, cafés, airport, motorways, nightclubs, hotels, virtual media has emerged as settings of contemporary Indian publications as Indian youth frequent these extravagant places regularly. With a close reading of select novels- Ruchita Misra’s The Ineligible Bachelors (2011), Sudeep Nagarkar’s It Started With a friend Request (2013) and You’re Trending in My Dreams (2015)- the paper demonstrates an extravagant, shining, and globalized postmillennial India which is reflected in the new body of Indian English fiction.