🥀The MInistry of utmost happiness 🥀

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Here is my response to the activity given by dr.Dilip Barad sir in the google classroom related to the novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy one of the Contemporary fiction works published in 2017. This novel is about a Hermaphrodite Person named Anjum and how his life is surrounded by Gender biasedness, Caste discrimination, myths, Naxalites, etc..

To know more about the novel let's try to give answers of the following Questions..

Points to ponder while writing a blog -

1) Read -

The Reader’s Digest Book of English Grammar and Comprehension

for Very Young Children

By

S. Tilottama - Give answers to the questions asked regarding any three stories. Questions are given at the end of each story.

2) Three points mentioned in the photo of board-work.

3) Write about any one theme or character of the novel with the help of Chat OpenAI GPT. Ask to Chat GPT and put screenshots as well as copy-paste the answer generated by this response generator.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy Published in 2017, after her debut, The God of Small Things. The novel weaves together the stories of people navigating some of the darkest and most violent episodes of modern Indian history, from land reform that dispossessed poor farmers to the Bhopal disaster, the 2002 Godhra train burning, and Kashmir insurgency. Roy's Characters run the gamut of Indian society and indulge an intersex woman,a rebellious architec,t and her landlord who is a supervisor in the Intelligence service. The narrative spans decades the locations but primarily takes place in Delhi and Kashmir.

Arundhati Roy

Suzana Arundhati Roy (Born 24 November) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the booker prize for fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. she is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. 

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 

About Novel : 

Genre: Fiction 

Publication 2017

Cover Artist: Mayank Austen Soofi

1) List of characters

Mulaqat Ali(Father of Anjum ,hakim )

Jahanara Begum(Mother of Anjum)

Alham Baaji (Midwife of Mulaqat Ali)

Aftab/Anjum (Protagonist)

Ziauddin (Blind Imam)

Kulsoom Bi (UStad of Khwabgah)

Bombay silk, Saeeda, Mary, Gudia & Bulbul (Living in Khwabgah)

Razia,Bismillah(Bimla) (Living in Khwabgah)

Zainab - A child {who later on marries Saddam Hussein}

Zakir Mian

Contractor Gupta

Dr.Azad Bharatiya(One of the Protestors )

Saddam Hussein (Dayachand)

Sherawat(Allegedly wanted to take revenge for his father's death)

Biplab Dasgupta (IB)

Chitrarupa(Wife of Bilpab)

S.Tillotama (Friend of Musa,Nagaraj Marries, biplab )

Nagaraj (Journalist)

Musa Yeswi(Involved in Naxalite activities)

Arifa Yeswi(Wife of Musa)

Jebeen The First(Died)

Captain Amrik Singh(Officer)

Jalil Qadri(Human Rights activist)

Acp Pinky Sodhi(Brutal interrogator)

Balbir Sodhi(Pinkey's brother)

Revathy (Mother of Udaya, Raped)

Udaya( Jebeen the Second)

2) Summary 

Aftab is a hermaphrodite born in Old Delhi and raised as a boy. However, Aftab is never comfortable with this and when he reaches adulthood, he opts for gender reassignment surgery. Aftab is reborn as Anjum, a glamorous woman whose affectionate, outgoing manner quickly ingratiates her with many members of the community.

Anjum finds a home with the residents of the place called Khwabgah, meaning "House of Dreams." This is a community of non-conformists, many of who are either intersex or transgender like Anjum. Calling it home, she remains there for thirty years, during which time she becomes a mother figure to a little girl named Zainab and raises her to adulthood.

However, when she is forty-six, she survives in the 2002 riots in Ahmedabad and decides to leave the Khwabgah She moves into a local cemetery transforming it into a guesthouse that she names Jannat, or "Paradise.

She opens a funeral services company catering to marginalized and persecuted groups. One day, a baby is found at an observatory in Delhi. Anjum takes the child in, but she disappears one day. Anjum tracks the baby down to the house of the woman who took her.

Saddam Hussein, an untouchable, awaits the day when he can avenge his father’s lynching.

The narrative then shifts to the story of S. Tilottama, called "Tilo" for short, the woman who took the baby. The story flashes back to her college days, her narrative spliced together with the stories of two men who loved her during these years. One is an old bureaucrat called Garson Hobart, and the other is a mainstream journalist named Naga whom she eventually marries.

Tilo, a dark-skinned, smart woman, had been close to architecture student Musa Yeswi at university. After university, Musa and Tilo reconnected shortly after his wife died. However, Musa became involved with the Kashmiri separatist movement advocating for independence for the Muslim región at the border of Pakistan.

Musa and his friend, Commander Gulrez, raise the attention of Indian bureaucrats led by the ruthless Major Amrik Singh. Singh, known for torturing his suspects brutally, captures Musa and Gulrez.

Musa manages to escape, but Gulrez is killed as Tilo watches. Shaken and realizing how close she came to being caught up in an extremely dangerous, plot, Tilo decides to play it safe and marry Naga. Fourteen years later, they divorce, and Tilo rents an apartment. They reconnect, but she soon disappears again with the baby from the observatory. She has named the baby Miss Jebeen the Second, after Musa's slain daughter. Anjum finds her and invites both of them to move into the Jannat guesthouse With her.

The narrative then flashes back to show how Miss Jebeen the First died, in the conflict in Kashmir. She and Musa's wife, Arifa are shot by soldiers.

Although Major Singh later tries to make peace with Musa by paying him off, Musa angrily rejects him and goes undercover. We also see more of the night Gulrez died, and it is revealed that Tilo was pregnant (with Musa's child) when she escaped Kashmir and married Naga. However, she chooses to have an abortion.

Back in the present, the residents of Jannat celebrate Zainab's wedding to fellow resident Saddam. One day, they receive a letter written by Miss Jebeen the Second's mother.

A member of communist Comrade Maase Revathy was raped, and although she could not care for her child, she reveals she named her Udaya. The residents of Jannat agree to name the child Miss Udaya Jebeen. The book ends as Garson Hobart reads through Tila's documents, realizing that he now sides with her on Musa arrives at his apartment, and they talk about Kashmir, with Musa saying that the conflict will make the country explode one day.

Musa joins Tilo at Jannat for the night but leaves to rejoin the fight in Kashmir, where he's killed. Anjum takes Miss Udaya Jebeen for a walk around Delhi in the last scene, while a small dung beetle observes the world around them.

Narrative Style

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is written in a non-linear narrative style, using multiple perspectives and jumping back and forth in time. It is a complex, multi-layered story that interweaves the lives of different characters and their experiences and struggles in contemporary India. The novel also employs elements of magical realism and surrealism.

3) Fact&Fiction

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written by Arundhati Roy, is a novel that combines elements of both fact and fiction. The novel is set in contemporary India and deals with real-world issues such as caste discrimination, political corruption, and the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. However, the novel also incorporates elements of magical realism and surrealism, blurring the line between fact and fiction.

The novel also deals with the lives and struggles of a diverse cast of characters, some of whom are based on real people, while others are purely fictional. In this way, the novel uses both fact and fiction to explore the complexities of life in contemporary India and to convey the author's political and social commentary.

Socio-Political Events 

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written by Arundhati Roy, deals with a variety of socio-political events and issues in contemporary India. Some of the key themes and issues addressed in the novel include:

Caste discrimination: The novel explores the ongoing caste-based discrimination in Indian society and the ways in which it affects the lives and experiences of different characters.

Political corruption: The novel also deals with the theme of political corruption and the ways in which it undermines the functioning of democracy in India.

Conflict in Kashmir: The novel deals with the ongoing conflict in Kashmir and the human rights violations committed by Indian security forces in the region.

The rights of marginalized communities: The novel also deals with the rights of marginalized communities such as the transgender community and the struggles they face in India.

Environmental destruction and corporate greed: The novel also deals with the theme of environmental destruction and corporate greed, and how it affects the lives of the people living around it.

Overall, the novel uses a variety of literary techniques to explore the complexities of these socio-political issues and to convey the author's political and social commentary on them.

🠊 ChatGPT

Character Sketch of Anjum

Anjum of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in Detail

Anjum is a character in the novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by Indian author Arundhati Roy. She is a hijra, a term used in South Asia for people who identify as a third gender. Anjum is born as a boy named Aftab, but identifies as female and eventually becomes a hijra.

Anjum is a central character in the novel and her story is interwoven with the other characters and their stories. Through Anjum, the novel explores themes of gender identity, marginalization, and the search for acceptance and community. Anjum's story is also a commentary on the treatment of hijras in Indian society. The novel shows how Anjum's experiences reflect the broader social and political issues faced by hijras in India.

Anjum is a complex character, she is tough and resilient, but also vulnerable and sensitive. She is both a victim of society's discrimination and a powerful voice for change. Throughout the novel, she struggles to find acceptance, both from society and from herself.

Anjum's story is one of the most memorable and powerful parts of the novel and showcases the author's ability to create a character that is both relatable and unique.

Q 1: Why was Mattoo shot?
(a) Because he was a Hindu
(b) Because he wanted Azadi
(c) Because he won the Nobel Prize
(d) None of the above
(e) All of the above.

Answer : (a) Because he was a Hindu

Q 2: Who could the unknown gunman have been?
(a) An Islamist militant who thought all kafirs should be killed
(b) An agent of the Occupation who wanted people to think that all Islamist militants thought that all kafirs should be killed
(c) Neither of the above
(d) Someone who wanted everyone to go crazy trying to figure it out.

Answer : (a) An Islamist militant who thought all kafirs should be killed

KHADIJA SAYS …
In Kashmir when we wake up and say ‘Good Morning’ what we really mean is ‘Good Mourning’.
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
Begum Dil Afroze was a well-known opportunist who believed, quite literally, in changing with the times. When the Movement seemed to be on the up and up, she would set the time on her wristwatch half an hour ahead to Pakistan Standard Time. When the Occupation regained its grip she would reset it to Indian Standard Time. In the Valley the saying went, ‘Begum Dil Afroze’s watch isn’t really a watch, it’s a newspaper.’

Q 1: What is the moral of this story?
Answer : May be the act of doing her wristwatch half an hour ahead to Pakistan Standard Time, And reset it to Indian Standard Time can be considered that how Kashmir is surviving under the fear of both the countries and it's pressure.

NOTHING

I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. That can’t be done in Kashmir. It’s not sophisticated, what happens here. There’s too much blood for good literature.

Q 1: Why is it not sophisticated?
Answer : Kashmir is the land where people live under the fear and with the militants so the there are many incidents happen everyday which become the reason of bloodshade. As it is the land of Mourning. So it cannot consider as sophisticated one.

Q 2: What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?
Answer : According to me, there is nothing like any amount of blood to create good literature.

The Mechanics of Writing

 

The Mechanics of Writing 

Research may start for one of many reasons: someone sees a problem with a business practice, has the desire to innovate and create something new, seeks to understand some natural process, or seeks to know more about an issue in order to make things work better or mitigate a condition. All these and more are reasons to conduct research. Good research starts with selecting a researchable problem.

Once you have your research question solidified, start your literature review as soon as possible. One reason to search the related literature right away is to make sure that someone else has not already researched the same topic. Keep in mind that if someone has already done the study you would like to do, you can still check their conclusions to see if they have recommended an area of further research. Also, check the date of their study. If it was quite some time ago, replicating their study with a few new twists just might expose some interesting conclusions. There are several other reasons to conduct a thorough literature review:

- It will increase your confidence in your topic….

- It can provide you with new ideas and approaches….

- It can inform you about other researchers whom you may wish to contact….

- It can show you how others have handled methodological and design issues….

- It can reveal previously unknown sources of data….

- It can introduce you to new research tools and techniques tested by other researchers….

- It can reveal methods of dealing with problem situations….

- It can help you interpret and make sense of your findings.

1) Academic Writing: Kalyan Chattopadhyay

Formal vocab and informal vocab

Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You’ll encounter it in journal articles and books on academic topics, and you’ll be expected to write your essays, research papers, and dissertation in an academic style.

Academic writing aims to convey information in an impartial way. The goal is to base arguments on the evidence under consideration, not the author’s preconceptions. All claims should be supported with relevant evidence, not just asserted.

To avoid bias, it’s important to represent the work of other researchers and the results of your own research fairly and accurately. This means clearly outlining your methodology and being honest about the limitations of your research.

The formal style used in academic writing ensures that research is presented consistently across different texts so that studies can be objectively assessed and compared with other research.

Because of this, it’s important to strike the right tone with your language choices. Avoid informal language, including slang, contraction, clichés, and conversational phrases.

Kalyan sir starts his lecture with a very good explanation of what is formal vocab and informal vocab with examples.

Subjective, objective

The problem of using subjective terms and objective terms. How one can use both the term at the specific place and time.

Contradicts

The contradictions can be used to put arguments that are opposites.

perspective (Hardy’s nature study with a new fresh idea of ecology concern)

In this point, the discussion is like when we do research we are responsible to give a new argument or direction by our perspective.

Examples of formal and informal texts

1. These findings are replicated.

2. the discussion in this paragraph will be confined to a general description of the problem.

Both are formal because passive and objective language is a feature of academic writing.

A couple of techniques for academic writing

1. Divide your texts into paragraphs. these paragraphs develop a particular aspect. Causley related. topical sentences. Supported sentences. Concluding sentences(summary). Findings.

2. Sudden(signalling) expressions. Therefore, usually, generally, etc.

Indicate the breakup or turn of the argument.

The introduction and conclusion should not be the same. That should be passive.

Using questions – self-asking questions.

Careful thought – analysis- comparison- decision making.

Writing critically

By this point, Sir made clear that academic writing and critical writing are so different from each other. Further, He has given the definition and how these differ that also.

‘Padding’

The argument, comparison, accepted, rejected, and supported sentences.

Remove Irrelevant sort of details.

Critics' argument – why their arguments are important to our research.

Academic writing and critical writing are different. Seminal thinkers of the research area.

Established own voice

When we do research we are doing that to find new and fresh gaps or ideas so we can use scholars' findings or arguments to support our findings or arguments but we must put or establish our own voice in our work.

You can not use all the read materials

Hit the main thing of your research

In our introduction, we have to specify our main quota of research so the readers of our work can find it easily and they do not find it boring to read.

Importance of Defense

Emotive, (with emotions)

This is how in this video Kalyan sir explained things very precisely and also how people, scholars, critics, and researchers can look at our work. What can be their problems that are discussed very well?

🌹Petals of Blood🌹

🎕Hello Everyone!!🎕

“He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.”

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Here is my blog on Petals of blood written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Set in Kenya just after independence, the story follows four characters – Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion. In order to escape city life, each retreats to the small, pastoral village of Ilmorog. As the novel progresses, the characters deal with the repercussions of the Mau Mau rebellion as well as with a new, rapidly westernizing Kenya.

About Writer 

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o born James Ngugi on 5 January 1938 is a Kenyan author and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English. He has been described as having been "considered East Africa’s leading novelist".His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, is translated into 100 languages from around the world.

In 1977, Ngũgĩ embarked upon a novel form of theatre in his native Kenya that sought to liberate the theatrical process from what he held to be "the general bourgeois education system", by encouraging spontaneity and audience participation in the performances. His project sought to "demystify" the theatrical process, and to avoid the "process of alienation produces a gallery of active stars and an undifferentiated mass of grateful admirers" which, according to Ngũgĩ, encourages passivity in "ordinary people".Although his landmark play, Ngaahika Ndeenda, co-written with Ngũgĩ wa Mirii, was a commercial success, it was shut down by the authoritarian Kenyan regime six weeks after its opening.

Ngũgĩ was subsequently imprisoned for over a year. Adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, the artist was released from prison and fled Kenya. In the United States, he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He has also previously taught at Northwestern University, Yale University, and New York University. Ngũgĩ has frequently been regarded as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He won the 2001 International Nonino Prize in Italy, and the 2016 Park Kyong-ni Prize. Among his children are the authors Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ and Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ.

Works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

About Novel

To go through the text here is a presentation by @yeshaBhatt ma'am. This presentation will help you to know about the text in easy language, as given in the thinking activity by Ma'am. Here is my response to the question asked in google classroom.

Petals of blood from yeshab68

1) Neo-colonialism: with reference to Petals of Blood

During the age of imperialism, European powers conquered African lands and ruled them as colonies. As African nations began to throw off their colonial rule and become independent in the mid-20th century, they began to form their own governments and seek to establish control over their economies. However, most of them became almost immediately privy to neocolonialism, which is where foreign investors and local ruling elites partner to "invest" in the country, but instead return said country to an almost colonial type of relationship. They are now subject to market forces, loans, transportation changes, and local corruption. Ngugi chronicles Ilmorog's experience with neocolonialism, showing that all of the new modern developments merely hid the fact that the people were losing any power of their own.

Africa is considered to be the most affected continent by European imperialist aggression, it suffered from long years of eventual conquest and colonization. This later fought and resisted all forms of domination and get its independence; however it still suffers from what we call neo-colonialism.

Neo-colonialism is known to be the last stage of imperialism39 which is the control of less-developed countries by the developed ones without any physical presence of the colonial 15 forces in the country. Although the country has gained independence its politic, economy, and educational system is directed from outside, usually from the rejected colonialist or from other empowered states.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's 1977 novel Petals of Blood, however, takes a slightly different tack: it depicts the postcolonial African nation as a complex and multifaceted entity, and it represents this nation in three ways. First, Petals of Blood reveals that there are many ways of viewing the postcolonial African nation: examining the official national structure created artificially by colonialism. or looking at the various locally created harmonious and not-so-harmonious communities within the official nation. Second, the novel presents several different locally created communities, which I will term, following Timothy Brennan, nations. It also espouses an ideal natio based on communal harmony and socialist economics, in which wealth is based on the amount of labor put in, and the peasants, the main labor force, control the means of production. Ngugi implies, in the course of the narrative, that this ideal nation can only be created through armed struggle, which would bring an end to the existing official nation and replace it with his ideal one. This ideal ratio would eventually be led by farmers, workers, and intellectuals, and would result in a more or less classless society. Third, although the novel idealizes the natio just described, it also presents its argument through a series of contrasts in which the official national and the various nations are played off of each other, suggesting that Ngugi ultimately endorses a view of the nation that is multiple and diverse, with structures of complicity and resistance contained within it. In the novel, then, there are four kinds of contrasts that Ngugi sets up for us: the contrast between several ideal nations and the artificial nation; the contrast between political betrayal and social justice; the contrast between an ironic narration and a "murder-mystery" narrative structure; and the contrast between many different commentaries and narrators of the action who frequently contradict each other. Since all of these contrasts suggest that there are many different ways of conceiving the ideal nation, most of the focus of this paper will be on describing and analyzing these contrasts.

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Reference:  

View of "Flowers in All Their Colours": Natios and Communities in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood | International Fiction Review, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/article/view/7768/8825. Accessed 8 January 2023.

R{ƎVO⅃}UTION TWENTY20

“Don't be serious, be sincere.”

Little light on Writer's Introduction

Chetan Bhagat

Born on 22 April 1974 is an Indian author, columnist, and YouTuber. He was included in Time magazine's list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Five of his novels have been adapted into films.

Chetan Bhagat's writing style is very different from other authors. He is known for making books readable for the average Indian. He has constantly been an inspiration to aspiring writers.

He believes in keeping it simple which helps him engage with the audience, who don't really want to refer to a dictionary while reading books. The audience also finds it easier to relate to his books as the context of his books is usually based on actual events from their lives.

Bhagat also invests a lot of time in creating the characters of his books so that his target audience can relate to them in a better way. His stories usually have an Indian touch to them which makes them even more interesting. With his vivid and humorous way of depicting stories, he has inspired reading habits in many young Indians.

Works of C.Bhagat

⁕Five of his novel adapted into films.

1) Hello - One night at call center

2) 3 Idiots - Five point someone

3) Kai po che! - 3 Mistakes of my life

4) 2 States - 2 States

5) Half-Girlfriend - Half Girlfriend 

As this novel is in our syllabus of Contemporary Literature in English. We are asked to do in a detailed study of R{ƎVO⅃}UTION TWENTY20 by Chetan Bhagat.

About the Novel

1) Social realism in the novel

The various ingredients that make contemporary Indian society seem despicable were pointed out by Bhagat in his fifth novel, Revolution 2020. Chetan Bhagat delves deep into a very serious malaise of Indian society – corruption. Corruption has existed since time immemorial and has pervaded every facet of Indian society, from getting a certificate, to getting a government job or getting approvals to start a school or college. The bribes paid could run into many lakes of rupees. The despicable and uncouth reality of Indian society has been laid threadbare in this novel. The novel talks about how the basic inception of corruption in modern times can be traced to opportunistic leaders, who are consumed by ambition and use corruption as a means to fuel their ambitions. The bleakness existing in Indian society, according to Bhagat, is due to political bankruptcy, social sins, malpractices and crimes of various hues. Revolution 2020 discusses in detail how the Indian government aids in corruption. Bhagat's book talks about how government employees and political leaders actually operate, which lead to untold corruption everywhere. Corruption, the dark side of Indian society that Indians are generally accustomed to, manifests itself in the rotten educational system, coupled with the dishonesty and bribery that exist in public life forms the essence of this novel.

The protagonist comes from a humble background that faces tremendous pressures in life. The novel describes him as an ordinary person with a slight paunch. It goes on to add that the “rest of him was whitish complexion, modest five feet seven-inch height, and his side-parted hair was reassuringly normal. His father didn't give him any pocket money and he didn't have much in his own pocket.” The protagonist lost his mother at the age of four, and his father owned only disputed agricultural land. Like Samir in Five Point Someone, the protagonist of Revolution 2020 is forced by his father to pursue engineering. Bhagat points out those students in India are not encouraged to opt for careers or studies based on their passion or choice. Rather, it is the will of the parent that is forced down upon their throats. The protagonist says, "I would be one of those unfortunate cases who had done well, but not well enough". They become distraught when they are not able to fulfill their parents' desires that were imposed upon them. As a result, students have to lie to their parents when they don't do well, for they wouldn't want to see their parents getting hurt. Parents on the other hand are also insensitive, who tend to scold them rather that reassuring them when things don't go as planned. Bhagat infers that this could be one of the reasons why young people contemplate suicide. The plot revolves around the protagonist, his friends Raghav and the local beauty Aarti who is a District Magistrate's daughter. The three of them belong to middle class backgrounds. The protagonist's father is an ailing retired teacher, who is not inclined to spend all of his money on his medication, as the well-being of his son; the protagonist occupies a higher priority. The protagonist wants to enter one of the prestigious IITs. He has to do the JEE, the entrance test, in order to get into one of them. But he is not successful. His father sends him to Kota, Rajasthan, which is renowned for institutes that impart training for one to clear the JEE. Yet, the protagonist fails in his subsequent sitting for the JEE. His father passes away in the meanwhile. He starts to live by himself. His relatives do not seem very interested in taking him under their wings.

2) Significance of the title 'Revolution Twenty20'

As given in this cover page of the book we can see background image of Varanasi as holy city of india and there's love triangle within it and one thing to be noticed here is in the original one RƎVO⅃UTION is written as it highlights love within REVOLUTION.

We can find Three major concerns given here is Love.Corruption.Ambition in the characters of Raghav, Gopal and Arti.

As novel opens up we can see the newness of relationships and the love triangle of contemporary era. As we just passed through the pendemic 2020 there were lot of corruption and scandles were on n on going Revolution Twenty20 by chetan Bhagat comes with the concept of Corruption in education , how holy place of India is reflected here , how love becomes an ambition and turns into corruption later on.

3) Do you think that an opportunity of a good novel is wasted because the story is told from Gopal's perspective? Can it be better if narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective? How would it be better if it was narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective?

Well i don't think so that story told by Gopal's perspective is wasted because in a way we don't find much of politicians do speak about their things out in public though it was all wrong what Gopal was doing but none can help in that as we'll have a lot of Gopals around us what we see is one sided tale what here Gopal is telling is his story throughout his life and how he ended up in corruption. Judging the story only on the bases of his scandles is wrong in a way. If it was narrated by Aarti then it would be more about love than corruption and it could have turn into a feminst prspective if aarti would have narrated.