An Analysis of Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020: Love, Ambition, Corruption

Abstract

The word revolution comes from the Latin word ‘ revolvere’. It means a change in the way a country is governed, usually by a different political system and often using violence and war. Revolution-2020 happens in three stages in Chetan Bhagat’s novel and is listed as love, ambition and corruption in the novel of Revolution-2020.  All these three stages are played by Gopal, Aarti and Raghav -characters in the novel. Their journey starts from the sacred city of Varanasi. Here the ambition of Gopal’s father is to make his son an engineer but Gopal’s passion is different. He meets a politician and opens a technical institute, initiating corruption. Raghav is from a middle-class family and cracks the IIT entrance test but his passion is to be a press reporter writing against corruption and how it has polluted the whole education system from top to bottom. Finally, the most beautiful girl friend of his, right from school days, aspiring to become an air hostess the daughter of the District Magistrate (collector of Varnasi) loves Raghav but goes for outing with Gopal, which puzzles Gopal most of the time as to whom she loves. This paper analyses how the three stages of revolution as love, ambition and corruption play a crucial role in the lives of Gopal, Aarti and Raghav .