SOCIO FEMINIST ISSUES IN THE SELECT NOVELS OF CHETAN BHAGAT

Abstract

Chetan Bhagat is one of the young Indian authors who has questioned the social issues which conquer the society. He is an icon for the young people and his novels have framed in a way of motivating the youngsters. He raises his voice and shows consideration towards women more than his men characters. In his writings, he gives women the equal rights in society as men. He portraits real human beings in his novels and associates them to social, political and economic values. The purpose of the study is to deal with Chetan Bhagat’s select novels which discuss social and political empowerment of women. Socio feminism is a feminist movement that stands for social rights and special accommodations for women. The present generation puts effort to tackle the constructive ideas framed at the past but they fall as a prey against it by their own family. Particularly in his novels Three Mistakes of Life and Revolution 2020, he brings a clear comparison between modern and traditional women in the society. They show how the modern women empower themselves even in the midst of constructive ideology. The study ends with the advice provoked by Chetan Bhagat for the youngsters. He states only the youngsters can rectify the socio feminist issues with co-ordination and friendship.