Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 1-291-0818-68 |
ISBN-13 | 978-8129135506 |
No of pages | 291 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Rupa Publications India |
Published Date | 01 Jan 2014 |
Chetan Bhagat is the author of nine blockbuster books. These include seven novels--Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), Half Girlfriend (2014) and One Indian Girl (2016) and two non-fiction titles-- What Young India Wants (2012) and Making India Awesome(2015). Chetan's books have remained bestsellers since their release.
Four out his five novels have been already adapted into successful Bollywood films and the others are in process of being adapted as well. The New York Times called him the 'the biggest selling English language novelist in India's history'.
Time magazine named him amongst the '100 most influential people in the world' and Fast Company, USA, listed him as one of the world's '100 most creative people in business'. Chetan writes columns for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development issues. He is also a motivational speaker and screenplay writer.
Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009 to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Anusha, an ex-classmate from IIM-A, and his twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan. You can email him at [email protected] or fill in the Guestbook with your feedback. You can also follow him on twitter (@chetan_bhagat) or like his Facebook fanpage (https://www.facebook.com/chetanbhagat.fanpage).
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‘One Night at the Call Centre’ focuses on the story of one night’s happening with 6 people working together at a call center in Gurgaon, India. At this particular call center, the employees are focused on giving technical support to American clients.
The 6 characters, Sham, Priyanka, Esha, Vroom, Radhika and Military Uncle are friends, who are all working on this particular night shift together.
In America, it is the THANKSGIVING time and the phone lines are ringing frantically. The call center receives one call from a very special caller, GOD. A call that alters everything.
Although, it is vastly based on this story of 6 characters, the book initiates with a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi. The narrating author meets a young girl on the train, who offers to narrate to him an account with a prerequisite that he will have to convert it into his 2nd publication.
The author hesitantly agrees. And the story is of that particular night at the call center in Gurgaon. The story is narrated through Sham’s perspective.
The narrations include emotions of lost love, disillusioned aspirations, lack of warmth from family, stress of patriarchal system and the work environs of multinationals.
The premises that this book contains include the quietness and reserved lives of the youth of modern India, inhibitions about career, marriage and family problems in a gradually transforming India.
This interesting read can be grabbed online at Amazon India.