Struggle for Life and Career of youth: A Case Study of Chetan Bhagat's Novel "One Night @ the Call Center"

Youth consists of the major chunk of the country’s population, say about 55%. They are the future of the country. They know that they have to work hard to achieve their goals, but it is hard for them to lose fun in life during the days of developing their career. Therefore they may resort to find some alternative ways of works to find some time for having fun simultaneously. If the alternative ways end up in disasters they have to either succumb to the existing system of work or to find better alternative career. This sort of youth life sandwiched between fun and career is excellently presented by Chetan Bhagat in his second novel One Night @the Call Center. The story takes place in the lives of six colleagues –Shyam, Vroom, Military Uncle, Priyanka, Esha and Radhika – working in a call center in Gurgaon. Though they worked hard throughout night being patient at their call-customers and strained more to be creative, their boss stole the credit of their creative hard work and threatened to fire their jobs. Out of pressure the colleagues went out for a brief relief but caught in an accident but learnt lessons from inner call (God) and bettered their lives accordingly. The story indicates the need of reviving the bossy burdensome employment system to allow the youth to flourish more with their creative instincts, not at the cost of their pleasure interests. Keywords: Burdensome employment system, Boss attitudes, Career building pressure, Alternative searches for works, Youth fun culture, Youth values and morale.