story of this week

PRACTICE NAMASMARANA

Here is a beautiful Chinna Katha our beloved Bhagwan often narrates to show how human effort is necessary for even divine grace. Bhagvan has often said that “Divine grace is like the sun, one should only open one’s heart to receive it.”

But very often man is not ready to accept God’s grace. One day a woodcutter was cutting the same branch on which he was seated. Goddess Parvati in Kailash, was very concerned on seeing the woodcutter. She immediately told Shiva to go and rescue the woodcutter. An argument broke out between them and finally they arrived at a compromise. They agreed that if the woodcutter shouted “APPA” (father) as he fell, Lord Shiva would rescue him. And if he shouted “AMMA” (Mother), Goddess Parvati would rush to his rescue. The divine couple watched on. The inevitable happened and with a fear stricken heart the man shouted.... “AYYOOOO” as he fell on to the ground.

Practice leads to perfection. Unless we practice the Sadhana of Namasmarana in our every day lives, we will be unable to chant the name of God when death knocks at our door. Baba says “God is simple, everything else is complex”. That is why Namasmara is the easiest way to commune with God and to merge in God.

amazing facts of human body

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body-Part 17

 

321.	Goose bumps on our skin are caused by pull of muscles attached to hair follicles and make the hair upright.
322.	The color of our hair is also determined by the melanin, a pigment present in the human body.
323.	The human adult heart pumps about 4,000 gallons of blood each day.
324.	The human body contains 30 amazing hormones, which regulates activities like sleep, body temperature, hunger, and managing stress in times of crisis and so on.
325.	A person growth like being tall or short is not determined only by the genes. Growth hormone also is responsible for it.
326.	Red Blood Cells constitutes about 40 % of the blood.
327.	The human body makes 2.5 million Red Blood Cells every second or about 200 billion Red Blood Cells every day.
328.	Arterial blood contains a lot of oxygen and nutrients for the body whereas venous blood contains low oxygen level and nutrients.
329.	Red Blood Cells are the only cells in the body that do not have a nucleus.
330.	If the blood vessels were laid from end to end, they would reach around the world four times.
331.	On an average, the human growth hormone, which is responsible for a person growth is produced at the rate of 500 microgram per day at the age of twenty, 200 microgram per day at the age of fourty and 25 microgram per day at the age of eighty.
332.	It is estimated that there are over 1, 000,000,000,000,000 connections in the human brain.
333.	Human brain constitutes 60 % of white matter and 40 % of grey matter.
334.	The average length of the human brain is about 167 mm and its average height is 93mm.
335.	A human heart pumps about 1,314,000 gallons of blood a year through its blood vessels.
336.	There are about 30 - 40 billion white blood cells present in our body to fight against infective and foreign organisms.
337.	The human bladder can stretch to hold about 400ml of urine.
338.	All the blood in our body passes 400 times through each kidney per day.
339.	The human Liver consists of 100,000 tiny clusters called lobules.
340.	On an average, the human stomach holds about 2 liters of contents.

bhagat before writing

HONG KONG — Until about four years ago, Chetan Bhagat was an investment banker distinguished from the suited phalanx in this city’s crowded financial district only by his secret hobby.

Samantha Sin/Agence France-Presse

Chetan Bhagat, an Indian investment banker who wrote two popular novels, “Five Point Someone” and “One Night @ the Call Center,” which already has international editions.

While others planned weekend excursions to the golf course, Mr. Bhagat, then employed by Goldman Sachs, indulged a passion for writing, laboring in his private time on a racy, comedic little novel about life on the campus of an elite college in his native India. In the early morning, before going to the office, he would work on draft after draft of the book, trying to get it right. He did 15 drafts in all.
Today Mr. Bhagat is still an investment banker, now with Deutsche Bank. But he has also become the biggest-selling English-language novelist in India’s history, according to his publisher, Rupa & Company, one of India’s oldest and best established publishers. His story of campus life, “Five Point Someone,” published in 2004, and a later novel, “One Night @ the Call Center,” sold a combined one million copies.
Less than three days after the release in 2005 of “One Night,” another slim comedy, about love and life in India’s ubiquitous call centers, the entire initial print run of 50,000 copies was snapped up, setting a record for the country’s fastest-selling book. And Ballantine has published a paperback edition of the novel in the United States.
Mr. Bhagat, who wrote his books while living here, has difficulty explaining why a 35-year-old investment banker writing in his spare time has had such phenomenal success reaching an audience of mainly middle-class Indians in their 20s. The novels, deliberately sentimental in the tradition of Bollywood filmmaking, are priced like an Indian movie ticket — just 100 rupees, or $2.46 — and have won little praise as literature.
“The book critics, they all hate me,” Mr. Bhagat said in an interview here.
But he has touched a nerve with young Indian readers. Mr. Bhagat might not be another Vikram Seth or Arundhati Roy, but he has authentic claims to being one of the voices of a generation of middle-class Indian youth facing the choices and frustrations that come with the prospect of growing wealth.
“I think people really took to the books mainly because there is a lot of social comment in there,” Mr. Bhagat said. “It’s garbed as comedy.”
Mr. Bhagat’s choice of subjects for his first two books — life at a highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology and at a call center — allowed him to explore some perennial themes: the pressures, many of them parental, to get into a top school, earn high grades, get a good job and find the right partner, while still taking time to enjoy one’s youth.
He described the members of the country’s current young generation as “more gutsy” than their parents, and as interesting as the generation that led India to independence in 1947.
But the competition among them is severe. Mr. Bhagat said that only 1 out of 700 applicants now gets into the Indian Institute of Management he attended in Ahmedabad, compared with 1 in 200 when he applied in 1995. That experience and his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi are the inspiration for “Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT,” the title a reference to the struggle his three main characters have with low grades.
The pressures to succeed are part of what is making India a vibrant, fast-changing economy and society, Mr. Bhagat said. But “competition has its limits,” he added.
Recently, after more than 10 years here, Mr. Bhagat moved with his wife, also a banker, and their 3-year-old twin sons back to India, where he is a director in Deutsche Bank’s distressed assets team in Mumbai. When he left India with an M.B.A. to start a banking career here, just before the 1997 Asian economic crisis, there were fewer opportunities at home, even for graduates of the best colleges.
Mr. Bhagat now wants to be a part of the historic changes taking place as India awakens to its potential.
Still, he sees a lot wrong with the model of economic success. His “One Night @ the Call Center,” destined to be a Bollywood film, is, beyond its story line about frustrated office romance, a critique of a nation climbing to prosperity by answering phone calls from American consumers.
With each new book Mr. Bhagat is trying to toughen his social criticism. He has just finished writing “Three Mistakes of My Life,” a pun of sorts, this being his third novel. But this time he is tackling a far more controversial theme.
Set in the western state of Gujarat soon after the bloody sectarian riots of 2002, it deals with issues of tolerance and the confusion Mr. Bhagat believes young Indians feel about religious values.
“India is a very religious country, and older people have extreme views on religion,” he said. “Young people are not able to relate to it.”
But true to his form, the story will have a “very modern twist, Bollywood comedy sort of format,” he said. “If you read my books, they are comedies, but very dark.”
The Web chatter and e-mail messages Mr. Bhagat receives about his books suggest that the dark social messages, wrapped in what he described as “quick reads” in the style of the humorous British writer Nick Hornby, have been getting through to his young audience.
But it is a balancing act, Mr. Bhagat said. His is an audience that grew up with Bollywood and wants a story that “tugs at the emotions” rather than moralizes or betrays serious literary ambitions. Mr. Bhagat said he developed his plots by using a computer spread sheet before he sat down to write.
Initially, he did get some literary praise, winning a Publisher’s Recognition Award and Society Young Achiever’s award in India in 2005 for “Five Point Someone.” But the first flush of critical success has worn off. Ravi Rao, a critic writing in The Times of India, said Mr. Bhagat had gone from “candor, easy wit and tight structure” in his first book to “a dud” with his second.
Mr. Bhagat and his publisher, Kapish Mehra, of Rupa & Company, have an easy retort to the critics: the books sell.
“He is not a literary writer,” Mr. Mehra said. “But, more importantly, he is a successful and popular writer.”

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one nigjt at the call center

One Night @ the Call Center

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One Night @ The Call Center
Author(s)	Chetan Bhagat
Cover artist	Chetan Bhagat and Samantha Holyoak
Country	India
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fiction
Publisher	Rupa & Co.
Publication date	October 2005
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	267 (11th imprint)
ISBN	ISBN 81-291-0818-6 (Paperback edition)
OCLC Number	63276386
LC Classification	MLCM 2005/00074 (P) PR9499.3.B

One Night @ the Call Center or ON@CC is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in Connexions call center in Gurgaon, Haryana. It takes place during the span of one night, in which all of the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change. The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn through a literal deus ex machina, when the characters get a phone call from God.
This is the second best-selling novel from the award winning author after Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT!.
About Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is a popular Indian speaker, columnist in major news dailies, and an author. When he’s not busy writing novels, he serves as a motivational speaker.
Bhagat has authored other bestsellers.
Some of his works include:
Revolution 2020
Five Point Someone
Three Mistakes of My Life
Two States
He has a very light-hearted and lucid style of writing and his books are often well received, thanks to their cinematic plots and interesting characters.
Chetan Bhagat is a graduate from IIT-New Delhi and a post graduate from IIM - Ahmedabad. After enjoying a successful investment banking career, he married Anusha Suryanarayan, whom he met during his post graduation. They are blessed with twins.

Synopsis

The book begins with a frame story which recounts a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi. During the journey, the narrating author meets a very beautiful girl. The girl offers to tell the author a story on the condition that he has to make it his second book. After a lot of hesitation, the author agrees. The story within the story, which comprises the bulk of the book, relates the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the eyes of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalized office. Shyam loves but has lost Priyanka, who is now planning an arranged marriage with another; Vroom loves Esha. Esha wants to be a model, Radhika is in an unhappy marriage with a demanding mother-in-law, and military uncle wants to talk to his grandson; they all hate Bakshi, their cruel boss. Claimed to be based on a true story, the author chooses Shyam Mehra (alias Sam Marcy) as the narrator and protagonist, who is one among the six call center employees featured.

Book Summary of One Night @ The Call Center

One Night @ The Call Center is the story of six colleagues from a call center who spend a night together, one that they’ll forever remember. Bhagat portrays the issues faced by a section of the Indian society and how people deal with their problems.
Summary of the Book
Chetan Bhagat’s second novel, One Night @ the Call Center, is based on a group of people working at a call center who have a chance encounter with God. The book describes a bunch of completely different characters with differing aims and ambitions, and how they pull themselves together and resolve these issues finally.
Shyam, Priyanka, Vroom, Esha, Radhika and Military Uncle are colleagues in a call center. An unfaithful husband, a scheming boss, apathetic grandchildren and a forced engagement are just some of their collective problems, and when the gang decides to take some time off work, a freak accident leads to a precarious situation – one that’s life altering.
In his trademark style, Bhagat fiddles around with issues like battered ambitions and the poignant aspect of love. The book was converted into a movie by Atul Agnihotri and was re-christened as Hello. It released in October 2008, and starred Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Gul Panag and Sharman Joshi.

Major themes

The themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the rising Indian middle class, including questions about career, inadequacy, marriage, family conflicts in a changing India, and the relationship of the young Indian middle class to both executives and ordinary clients whom they serve in the U.S.A. There is an aspect of self-help in the book as the author invites readers to identify aspects of themselves and their lives that make them angry and that they would like to change. One of the salient features of this novel is that all the characters experience a dramatic and disturbing event during the night when they receive a call from God, and all use this moment to re-examine their own lives.

Shyam's woes

Shyam is very upset to learn that Priyanka is engaged to a person called Ganesh Gupta, who works at Microsoft in the US because he had dated priyanka for a long time and the two had engaged in sex . To add to his woes, he is horrified to learn that Bakshi had cheated him, and Vroom, by submitting the Troubleshooting Website to the Boston centre as his own without crediting him and Vroom.

Priyanka's woes

Priyanka is first happy when she is engaged to Ganesh Gupta, who works for Microsoft but becomes furious when she hears that her parents have planned her marriage the very next month, which she feels is too early. Both her mother and Ganesh press her to agree to this proposal. She is even more saddened by the fact that Shyam was eavesdropping on her conversation with Ganesh. When Vroom and Shyam show her that Ganesh had forged his pictures to hide his baldness, she disapproves Ganesh for having cheated her.

Esha's woes

Esha had earlier done a compromise by sleeping with a designer to get a modeling contract. However the guy turned out to be opportunistic as he betrays her by telling her she can't become a model due to her height. He also tries to console her by sending her some money. Esha feels terribly betrayed and tries to suppress the mental pain by inflicting herself with physical pain by purposely cutting her skin.

Vroom's woes

Vroom is shocked to learn that Bakshi has cheated him and Shyam by submitting their work as his own. To add to his miseries, he overhears Esha telling the other girls that she had slept with a designer to get a modeling contract.

Radhika's woes

Radhika, who loved her husband very much, is shocked to learn about his dark side. When Vroom calls up her husband portraying as a radio jockey and asks him to dedicate roses and a song to someone special, he chooses his girlfriend Payal over his wife. Radhika who listens to this gets terribly upset as her husband has betrayed her.

Military Uncle's woes

Military Uncle tries to be nice to his son and grandson. But when he sends some pictures via mail to his grandson, he loses his cool and asks him to keep out of his life. This leaves Military Uncle heartbroken.

Phone call from God

The phone call from God is one of the salient features in the novel. The author has represented god as a friendly figure rather than a boss. He is shown as speaking in modern English rather than the stereo-typical pure English or Latin that one usually encounters God saying. The circumstances in which the characters of the novel get a phone call from God is discussed in the next paragraph. In order to cheer themselves up, all the lead characters of the novel decide to go and enjoy at a night club. After enjoying for a while, they leave for office. Midway through the journey, Vroom starts to feel nauseated after drinking alcohol and so they stop and venture out. Vroom throws up and also breaks the window-pane of a shop thus spreading an alarm. They rush out of the place in fear. While returning, they face a life-threatening situation when their Qualis crashes into a construction site hanging over a mesh of iron construction rods. As the rods began to yield slowly, they started to panic. They are unable to call for help as there is no mobile phone network at that place. In this situation, Shyam's mobile phone starts ringing. The phone call is from God. He speaks to all of them and gives them suggestions to improve their life. After that, God also advises them on how to get their vehicle out of the construction site. The conversation with God motivates the group to such an extent that they get ready to face their problems with utmost determination and motivation. Meanwhile Vroom and Shyam hatch up a plan to throw Bakshi out of the call center and prevent the closing of Connexions call center, whose employees are to be downsized radically. When they emerge out of danger, they have clear-cut goals in their mind. On returning to the Call Center, they carry out their plans with dexterity.

Translation

This book has been translated into Hindi and is published by Prabhaat Prakashan.^{[1]
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Film adaptations

Main article: Hello (film)

Noted Bollywood film director Rohan Sippy had bought the rights from the author Chetan Bhagat, but later Sippy let the rights pass on to director Atul Agnihotri, brother-in-law of Salman Khan. The movie version of the novel is titled as Hello starring Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Amrita Arora, Katrina Kaif, Gul Panag, Sharman Joshi. Hello was released on 10 October 2008 to average to bad reviews and did poor business especially in multiplexes of big cities and was declared flop as it did 5 crore business in the first 2 days itself.
books review and critics comments

A Book Review of Chetan Bhagat's, One Night@the Call Center chillibreeze writer — Maitabi After the success of Five point someone, Chetan Bhagat’s latest venture, One Night @ the Call Center received mixed reviews. This 289 pager is a tale of six people working in a call center called “Connexions” in Gurgaon. The characters are Shyam, Varun, Esha, Priyanka, Radhika and a Military Uncle. It’s a story of their pain, sorrows, ambitions, love life, personal trauma and the happiness they share together. The Plot One Night @ The Call Center revolves around six people, three men and three female to be precise, working in the same group in a call center. Though distinctly different in all aspects there was something which bound these folks together - their messed up lives. The story is about them and how a night in their office changed their lives forever. Characters Shyam Mehra, call name Sam Marcy, is the narrator of the story and if you are looking for a more detailed intro, I can add that he is the hero of the novel. Pretty confused in life and more so because of his screwed up love life. Shyam’s character is that of the ‘boy next door’. Does his life change after God’s call and does his love life finally get a happy ending? Varun Malhotra, call name Victor Mell, is Shyam’s friend. Very smart and loves speed, which is why his friends call him ‘Vroom’. Varun hates the call center and his Americans employers. Unfortunately, he has to compromise for the simple reason that he has to keep up his standard of living. Otherwise he runs at risk of ruining his image in front of his friends. Does he stay back at the call center or does he find another way for himself? Esha Singh, call name Eliza Singer, is the pretty face of the group. An aspiring model, who ran away from home and took up a job at the call center so that she could achieve her dreams. She works as a call center agent by night and meets model coordinators in the day. But does everything go the way Esha planned? Does she make it to the modeling world? Radhika Jha, call name Regina Jones, is the only married one in the group. Trying to manage the household activities and her job, Radhika’s main aim in life is to earn money and settle down on one hand, and manage her mother-in-law on the other. She loved her husband deeply until she found out about her husband’s love interest. After knowing the truth does Radhika forgive her hubby or walk out of the relationship? Priyanka is the heroine of the novel. To be precise, Shyam’s ex-girlfriend. Priyanka’s mom wants her to marry an NRI and she finally agrees. Though Shyam and Priyanka had called it quits on their relationship a long time ago, her feelings for Shyam still linger. Who does Priyanka finally marry, Shayam or NRI Ganesh? Military uncle is the oldest of the lot and the odd man out. A family feud forces his to stay alone even in his old age, an uncommon phenomenon in India. Military uncle’s heart cries out for his grandson. Will they ever be united? Shefali and Mr.Bakshi have special appearances. Comments Bhagat’s writing is simple and clear. He writes in a comfortably natural style, without complicated words, which keeps the narration lucid and easy to follow. His writing is also loaded with subtle humor, especially the one-liners, which are just awesome. The realistic characters and easy language undoubtedly make the novel interesting but there are places where it tries your patience as well. The narration of Shyam’s dates with Priyanka are a bit tedious and long winded. Another point which drew my interest was the resemblance of the novel to any Bollywood ‘masala’ movie. I don’t know whether I would call this a shortcoming of the novel, but there were so many instances where I thought this was just like a movie! On the whole, like my brother, I too believe One Night@ the Call Center is fab! It definitely makes an interesting read and Chetan Bhagat has proved himself once again after his debut novel, Five Point Someone. However,do not compare this novel with his first one as this would lead to the essence of the former being lost. Bravo Chetan!!! sarang bhastkur's After almost 6 months of not reading any book , I read this book a few days back . I had earlier read Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone which was indeed good .               I must say comparing this to Five point someone is not cool , as this book does not deal with the students , although it represents the youth of the country . This book is about 6 call centre employees – Shyam , Priyanka , Esha , Vroom , Radhika & “military uncle” . Just like Five point someone was adapted in a movie , the bollywood movie -”Hello” (2008) starring Salman Khan was adapted from this story . Turns out that this book has twist through the literal  ”deus ex machina ” – a plot device where a complicated problem is abruptly solved by an unexpected intervention of a new character. The new character in this story is none other than God.             The preface includes a train journey by Chetan Bhagat from IIT Kanpur to Delhi where he meets a beautiful girl who narrates him this story provided he makes the story , his second book . The book then starts with the Shyam , as first person – who tells the readers about his misfortunes as a call centre employees . Turns out that each one of his colleagues had their own woes to share . As it said – every head has its own head ache , Shyam also shares the woes of the other 5 . The 6 of them had their own American names , as the callers from the US could pronounce their Indian names . They had to deal with all kind of meaningless calls , regarding every silly problem that could occur after purchasing a product and they had answer all of their callers patiently .             Three-Fourth of the book goes at a good pace describing the lives of the 6 people . Apart from the problems with the callers , they also had a terrible boss – Bakshi . Shyam and Vroom had designed a new website for the firm and they submitted the report to Bakshi . Shyam was expecting to be promoted as the team leader while Bakshi submitted the report to Boston with his name in it . Thus , Bakshi not only affected the Shyam’s work life but that had impact on his personal life as well . The 6 of them had a terrible personal life as well .               The twist comes when the lives of the 6 people dramatically gets affected on the same day and they leave in a Qualis at 2 am . They end up in getting the Qualis skid of the road into a construction site where they battle for life. It turns out that Shyam gets a phone call then , a phone call from God . The call is also heard by the others and God tells them the reason for their misery and how they can overcome it .               The story then speeds up with Shyam & Vroom threatening Bakshi ,  saving the jobs of the colleagues and then improving their own lives as well . They have plans of starting their own web designing firm , and Shyam get backs his love- Priyanka . The story makes an abrupt change after the phone call of God . I was expecting a good twist in this story but turns out that this wasnt upto the expectations . But the book is definitely worth a read . Turns out that the girl who narrates the story turns out to be Goddess Shakti , herself or was it Chetan Bhagat’s dream ?               Well , inclusion of the new character – God was a good idea but turns out that it didnt fit the storyline very well . The post-phone-call story isnt that good . One thing why I like Chetan Bhagat’s books is that he describes the characters in the story really well . He does the same here – may it be the mysterious story teller girl or Shyam . The pace of the book is really good till the phone call from God & I was drowned into the story . I feel that the post phone call story could have been better. Thats it for now , I had a nice time reading the book while travelling in the bus . Hope you readers have a nice time too  :-)  . lens mann says, My all-time favorite I’m a book lover since my school days and have read hundreds of books till now. But one book is my favorite and remains close to my heart, which is One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat. This book was published in the year 2005, the time when I was in the initial stages of my career and was myself working at a call center in Delhi. May be that is why I could relate to the characters and events of this book so closely. Other books by the same author are Five Point Someone, 3 Mistakes of My Life and 2 States. All did well in the market, but One Night @ the Call Center remains my all-time favorite. Read Other works from Chetan Bhagat Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT Amazon Price: $2.65 List Price: $12.75 2 States: The Story of My Marriage Amazon Price: $3.09 List Price: $17.95 The 3 (Three) Mistakes of My Life (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and Korean Edition) Amazon Price: $16.95 One Night at the Call Center: A Novel Amazon Price: $4.00 List Price: $15.00 Ads by Google Download Google Chrome www.Google.com/Chrome Searching is fast and easy with Google's web browser. Buy Thriller eBooks www.MIRAbooks.co.uk/India Buy Low-Priced Thrillers Online. 50% Off Crime eBooks at MIRA India! New author www.WlWrItErSaGeNcY.com/NewAuthor We Develop Writers or Publish. We Find Top Publishers For You Fast Story Outline This is an awesome book revolving around the lives of 6 people working in Connexions Call Center in Gurgaon. The characters are Priyanka, Esha, Radhika, Vroom, Shyam and Military Uncle, all of whom are caught in issues related to their career, marriage and family conflicts and their relationship with their executives and clients. Shyam and Priyanka were in love earlier, but now, they have broken up and Priyanka is not engaged to Microsoft personnel, Ganesh Gupta. Priyanka is happy with Ganesh Gupta, but later finds out that he is bald, he has lied to her and she is not happy with her marriage the very next month too. Esha is frustrated because she slept with a designer in order to get a modeling contract, but later the guy refused that she cannot become a model because of her height. Vroom secretly loves Esha, but feels hurt when he hears her telling her friends that she slept with the designer. Radhika is devoted to her family, serves her in-laws and loves her husband who does not live with her due to job. But she finds that he has affair with some Payal and she goes on to take anti-depression pills. Military Uncle seems to be strict and quiet from the outside, but at heart, he loves his son and grandson so much. But his son is so mean to ask him to stay out of their life. Other works of Chetan Bhagat Five Point Someone’ is a book about life of 3 mechanical engineering students at IIT college, Hari Kumar, Alok Gupta and Ryan Oberoi. ‘3 Mistakes of My Life’ is a novel about 3 friends, Govind, Omi and Ishaan, all of whom have different goals in life but start a business together. The story of the novel revolves around 3 mistakes they do in their life, along with a touch of religious politics. ‘2 States’ is the latest novel by Chetan Bhagat who is about Ananya and Krish, who are from different Indian states but are in deep love with each other. How it related to My life Coming back to One Night @ the Call Center, it is a book that talks about problems that almost all of us face in our everyday lives. It deals with almost all problems that young people in India face, including issues related to their girlfriend or boyfriend and no guaranty of the job. I myself worked at call center at that time and could easily relate to the scenes of the book when US clients are bashing and blaming the call center executives unreasonably. Even if you have never worked in a call center or you have no idea about how life is there, then this book will inform you about the work culture in small BPOs. An Interview with Chetan Bhagat The memorable thing about the book is the phone call from the God, after which, the characters get motivated and their lives change. God speaks to them in modern English language and suggest them how they can improve their lives. After that, all of them get motivated to face their problems, they make a plan to screw Bakshi, their Boss, and to increase their sales so that the downsizing can be prevented. The book has been published by Rupa & Co. and is available online at amazon on a reasonable price . It proves to be an amazing pastime to kill a Sunday afternoon and after reading it, you will be forced to try to solve your problems, that you may be facing in your daily lives. Critical study of One Night at The Call Center Chetan Bhagat’s second novel, One Night @ the Call Center, is based on a group of people working at a call center who have a chance encounter with God. The book describes a bunch of completely different characters with differing aims and ambitions, and how they pull themselves together and resolve these issues finally. Shyam, Priyanka, Vroom, Esha, Radhika and Military Uncle are colleagues in a call center. An unfaithful husband, a scheming boss, apathetic grandchildren and a forced engagement are just some of their collective problems, and when the gang decides to take some time off work, a freak accident leads to a precarious situation – one that’s life altering. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka's domineering mother has arranged for her daughter's upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers it's a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat. They all try to make it through their shifts-and maintain their sanity-under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything. this book is a good inspiration for how to handle your problem.. over here shyam a guy who works in the call center his problems are shown and how he handles it but actually he doesn't handle it but gets messed up so here its a thing to learn how to handle situations like this and most importantly you should not loose your confidence at any state keep faith in yourself to know what i am saying do read the book.. its good..  The themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the rising Indian middle class, including questions about career, inadequacy, marriage, family conflicts in a changing India, and the relationship of the young Indian middle class to both executives and ordinary clients whom they serve in the U.S.A. There is an aspect of self-help in the book as the author invites readers to identify aspects of themselves and their lives that make them angry and that they would like to change. One of the salient features of this novel is that all the characters experience a dramatic and disturbing event during the night when they receive a call from God, and all use this moment to re-examine their own lives. Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author who has written Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT , One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States - The Story Of My Marriage. He has also written the script of Hello, the Hindi movie based on One Night @ the Call Center. Chetan Bhagat was born in New Delhi and studied in the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at The Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) and then studied at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where he was named "The Best Outgoing Student". He worked as an Investment Banker with Deutsche bank for eleven years in Hong Kong and moved to Mumbai with his wife Anusha in 2008. Later he gave up his job to devote his entire time to his writings. He is married to Anusha, who was his classmate in IIM. Bhagat's writing style tends to be simple, with linear narratives and vivid storytelling. His protagonists tend to be named after Lord Krishna, like Hari, Shyam, Govind or Krishna.All his books have a number in the title (eg. 'five' in the first, 'one' in the second, 'three' in the third and 'two' in his latest book.) When asked about this Chetan replied 'I'm a banker, I can't get numbers out of my head." In response to poor reviews from critics, Bhagat described the books as entertainment, rather than attempts at serious literature. He is a columnist with Dainik Bhaskar & The Times Of India, and writes on political issues. He is an NRI and a citizen of Singapore. Bhagat has an op-ed column in Dainik Bhaskar, a large Hindi newspaper and another at The Hindustan Times, an English daily.He says "The main purpose of the books and films is to entertain, but the columns allow me to give my views on how the nation should be run." Some of his columns have been discussed in the Indian Parliament. His articles are written in simple English to achieve mass appeal. He also visits Educational Institutions in India to give motivational talks. His speech 'Spark' in Pune attained widespread fame and was published in many newspapers