• Poonam Gupta
• Dr Richa Pathak

Chetan Bhagat is a renowned name in Indian English fiction writing. Especially he has written campus novels, and today his novels are bestselling novels. He is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker. He is known for his Indian-English novels about youngsters. He writes columns on youth and he is youth oriented writer. He has touched every aspect of youth’s life in the present novel. Bhagat strives to portray the mental stirrings of his personnel. He tries to portrait the old traditions of the society. He speaks about the mind-sets of the people, discriminations between woman and man. Woman’s having their own goals in their life. His writing holds no restraints and so are the characters of the novels. The main objective of his writing is to appreciate the liberty, rights, and views of women. . Bhagat considers literature as a provocative pill, which works as a strong stimulant to the human mind. Bhagat enthuses the youth to purge sterile dogmatism of the social system. Bhagat writes about the youth and specifically for the youth. However, the people of all age groups love to read him. Everyone feels as if Bhagat writes to him. He writes so simple that everyone likes him. It is reported that Bhagat’s . Bhagat is in favour of realism in art. His artistic truth lies within sensory perception. It guides his readers to obtain self-enlightenment. Therefore, character is prior to the plot. His novel Point Someone was published in 2004 and is still on top selling list. It won him the Society Young Achiever’s Award in 2004 and the Publisher’s Recognition Award in 2005. His characters in the form of youth are social rebels who remind us the Angry Youngmen that dominated English novel in the 1950’s. His female protagonists remind us about the female characters who rebel against the poor system of the society. Place of action of his novels is set in the hustle and bustle of Metropolitan Indian cities where life moves at fast speed. He presented vivid pictures of life by highlighting youth and also provided solutions of the day to day turmoil that comes line a roller coaster in everybody’s life. The youth at last was triumphed by crossing all the hurdles which comes in his way.

Human Psyche, Realistic, Protagonist, Dogmatism, Perceptions, Turmoil, Triumph

"The Representation of Youth and Youth Culture in the Novels of Chetan Bhagat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.f447-f451, December-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212553.pdf

"The Representation of Youth and Youth Culture in the Novels of Chetan Bhagat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no. ppf447-f451, December-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212553.pdf