Modernity Swings in Indian Values in Chetan Bhagat’s Novels

Abstract

Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with the so-called traditional ways of writing both in prose fiction and in poetry.  Modernism has its origin in the late 19^th and the early 20^th centuries specially in Europe and North America.  Indian fiction in English has gone through lot of transformation from the early to Modern time fiction writers.  In the recent past years India has produced a good numbers of Indian English Fiction writers, who have impressed the literary world with their art of writing. Chetan Bhagat an Indian writer through his writings has single handedly reshaped the Indian English novels. He experimented not only with the content but also with the form and style.  Bhagat’s characters are very modern in nature are the followers of global culture.  His characters ignore the traditions and the values of past. His characters do not want to be in the prisons of customs, traditions, and cultures.  The present paper shows the effect of Modernization on Indian values and how Chetan Bhagat has displayed it in his novels. Modernism started at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century and has roots in western society.  Modernist art reflected the deracinated experience of life in which tradition, community, collective identity, and faith were eroding.