• Ragupathi Ramasamy

This paper attempts to discuss and find out gender influence in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl. As Garrett points out gender is used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities and it is not to express whether the state of being male or female. Chetan Bhagat deliberately states that the book is for all Indian girls and clearly points that it is about women who are suffering because of patriarchal society. Though this novel portrays feministic points from male point of view it is an irrefutable fact that the novel is a clear description of gender influence, not to the state of being male or female. When the female protagonist’s father is introduced in the novel and also the roles he takes, no role or domination of male is seen in the entire novel. In the novel One Indian Girl it seems that the society is patriarchal but the major role to take decision is given to matriarchal. The great philosopher Simone de Beauvior says that no one is born a woman or man, one becomes one. It has been clear that the society the female protagonist lives gives her courage and guides her for the next status, not the sex whether male or female. As Sigmund Freud states Chetan Bhagat in One Indian Girl has attempted to give a clear picture of a girl’s situation where the psychoanalytic theory is a predominant one. Despite the influence of post modern movements or identity, the novel One Indian Girl is a good attempt to portray studies of gender.

Gender Influence, Cultural Theory, Cyber Feminism, Patriarchal and Matriarchal

"Breaking Gender Stereotype: Women of India in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl – a Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.278-283, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905E43.pdf

"Breaking Gender Stereotype: Women of India in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl – a Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp278-283, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905E43.pdf