The document presents an analysis of Chetan Bhagat's novel 'Revolution 2020', focusing on themes of love, ambition, and corruption through the lives of three main characters: Gopal, Aarti, and Raghav. The narrative explores the contrasting choices made by Gopal, who succumbs to corruption for success, and Raghav, who strives to initiate social change through journalism. Additionally, the document discusses the societal pressures faced by the youth in India, highlighting Bhagat's critique of the education system and the political landscape.

1. S.B.Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university
An Introductory Presentation on
REVOLUTION 2020
Presenters:
Hirva Pandya 10
Dhavni Rajyaguru 04
Nehalba Gohil 15
Khushbu Makwana 13
Class:M.A.sem-4

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3. About Author
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❖ Chetan Bhagat, a rising star in the contemporary
modern Indian literature, is a multi talented
personality.
❖ He is a novelist, columnist, public speaker and a
screenplay writer.
❖ His notable works include Five Point Someone, The
3 Mistakes of My Life and 2 States.
❖ Most of his literary works address the issues related to
Indian youth and their aspirations which earned Bagat
status of the youth icon.

4. Key Notes:
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➔ Revolution 2020 published in the 2011
➔ IT has 42 chapters.
➔ Story started with prologue it ends with Epilogue.
➔ there are three main characters Gopal,
Aarti,Raghav
➔ The story mainly dealing with the idea of Love,
corruption,Ambition.
➔ There is also journey of self discovery

5. Continue…..
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The question is of Who will win?
❖ Because on one side Gopal who gives to
the system
❖ on the other side Raghav fights with the
system
❖ One wanted to use his intelligence to
make money, one wanted to use
intelligence to start revolution.

6. Title Significance
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The novel has given the title revolution 2020 it is suggest that
there is some kind of revolution which raghav did against the
corrupt people and for that he started Newspaper revolution 2020.
As no one else other than Raghav can bring about a revolution in
India by becoming the MLA and who knows CM. This is the only
reason why the book is named Revolutions 2020- to make the
conclusion sound logical.

7. Major Characters:
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There are three protagonists in
the tale, Aarti, Gopal, and
Raghav. The story is narrated
through Gopal’s perspective who
is a middle-class boy with eyes
full of dreams. There is a love
triangle in the story. Both of them
love the same girl, Aarti. And
then starts the scuffle between
Gopal and Raghav. Gopal’s story
is
Arti
Gopal

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Gopal Mishra
# poor, Self Obsessed.
# Loves Arti.
# One who wanted to use his intelligence to make money.
# who ultimately joins hands with corrupt politician to walk on the path of corruption and
starts private engineering college, Ganga Tech College in Varanasi.

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Raghav Kashyap
# from a well-off family.
# One who wanted to use his intelligence to start a revolution.
# who ultimately runs his own newspaper 'Revolution 2020' to bring in change in society and make nation free
from corruption.
# He has cracked JEE and AIEEE and joins BHU-IT instead of famous IITs or NITs so he can pursue
journalism along with engineering.
# He follows his passion to be a journalist who can bring in 'change' in society rather than opt for an easy job in
multinational company or public sector company like his father who was IITian and works as engineer in BHEL.
# Cheated by Arti but then got married with her.

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Aarti Prathan
# Rich
# daughter of IAS officer who is District Magistrate of Varanasi and
love interest of both, Gopal and Raghav.
# Loves Raghav later on falls for Gopal.
# Working as Guest Relations Officer, Ramada Hotel

11. Plot overview:
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This book follows the story of two friends separated by their ambitions and passions yet
connected by their love for the same girl Arti. While Gopal, who has experienced the harsh
realities of life due to poverty aspires to become rich, his friend Raghav is a boy from a well-off
family who desires to create a revolution in India by fighting corruption.
Gopal gets a low ranking in the AIEEE exams while Raghav is among the toppers. Gopal
moves to Kota to join reputed coaching classes to help with his ranking. Raghav becomes a
celebrity in the town after he passes the IIT entrance exam. Aarti falls for Raghav during Gopal's
absence. Aarti and Gopal chat online, and Aarti reveals her relationship to Gopal, who is
heartbroken. He studies hard but gets a low ranking in the AIEEE exam for the second time. His
father dies shortly after . Raghav decides to become a journalist and pursue a career in a
newspaper publishing house.
Meanwhile, Gopal is contacted by a politician who wishes to build an engineering college on
the highly valuable land that Gopal's family owns. Gopal agrees to the deal, and joins the system
of corruption in India in order to build the college with the politician's black money.

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Raghav starts his own newspaper, Revolution 2020, to change the world and
expose the corrupt system in India. After another expose, Raghav's newspaper is shut
down by politicians and thugs, and he loses almost everything.
Raghav is still passionate about his activism and forgets about Aarti. Gopal seduces
Aarti who returns his love, giving in to years of suppressed feelings. Aarti falls in love with
Gopal, and begins to cheat on Raghav. Gopal then decides to disclose to Raghav that him and
Aarti are a couple.
Gopal goes to Raghav's office but a chance encounter with a poor farmer and his kid
who had come to Raghav for help shakes him up and he realizes the folly of money, power
and wealth. He decides to let go of Aarti perhaps realising they were never meant to be
together and Raghav would always remain Aarti's love. He with the help of politician invites
two prostitutes as a part of his birthday surprise and ensures Aarti witnesses it, making her
hate him forever. He anonymously helps Raghav get a job, and suggests he become a
politician (MLA) to bring about the revolution he desired. Aarti and Raghav thereafter got
married.
Gopal becomes a rich and successful businessman, but is still heartbroken over Aarti.

13. Major themes:
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14. The Theme of Love :
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Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys. One wanted to use
his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use his intelligence to start a revolution.
The problem was, they both loved the same girl.” Basically, the novel is about love.
Narrated from the perspective of Gopal, it unfolds a story about childhood friends Gopal &
Raghav who loved Aarti. Gopal, the narrator, is the tragic hero, the Devdas of this love-
story plot of the novel.He deeply loved Aarti but sacrificed his love for the happiness of
Aarti.
The first problem in this love between Gopal and Aarti is perceived when Raghav passes
JEE and AIEEE exams with flying colours and Gopal fails to crack these exams. After
another failure at AIEEE and JEE, Gopal is broken and in low self-esteem – during this
phase, he observes that Aarti and Raghav are in a serious relationship. He passed through
pain and agony in this part of the love story.

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His childhood rivalry with Raghav intensifies as his love-interest ‘Aarti’ is also taken-away
by Raghav. After starting a college with black money of MLA Shukla-ji, and becoming rich
to live a lavish life, Aarti, who is not finding time and space in Raghav’s life full of
revolutionary zest, is again attracted towards Gopal. Their old love is revived.
Later on, when he faces his corrupt self, he realizes that Aarti may not be happy in
married life with a person like him:
“But will she love you if she knows who you really are? A corrupt, manipulative bastard?”
Thus, he plans to end the love story by faking himself as one who is habituated to
debauchery with call-girls. With the marriage of Raghav and Aarti, the love story of Gopal
tragically ends.
con…

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The Theme of Corruption:
The theme of corruption unfolds through the story of Gopal’s success in
establishing a private engineering college and failure of Raghav in
establishing himself as a successful journalist. These trajectories of Gopal
and Raghav – one from failure to success and another from successful
academic career to failure in professional life – supports the theme of
corruption. It is corrupt practice that gives success to Gopal and it is the
fight against corruption that leads to the failure of Raghav to run newspaper
R2020.

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The theme of Ambition
This love story which is set in corrupt contemporary society is driven by the ambition of two
prominent characters, Gopal and Raghav. They both are ambitious to make something great in life.
The choice of poor Gopal is to make money, acquire position and become powerful, irrespective of
being morally right or not. Whereas, Raghav’s ambition is to bring ‘change’ in society. He is
ambitious to start a revolution in society to make a corruption free society.
Write about how Gopal who failed to crack AIEEE and JEE to get admission in NIT/IIT, starts his
own private college with the help of Girish Bedi (education consultant) and black money of MLA
Shukla-ji.
Write about how Raghav, instead of getting a job and living a happy life, strives to bring in positive
change in society…. He's working as a journalist instead of an engineer like his father…. Exposing
corruption in Dainik and then starting his own newspaper ‘Revolution 2020’ when thrown out of job .
. . and then when his press is ransacked by goons of Shukla-ji, he still struggles to continue his
good work in poor condition.

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The Theme of Revolution:
The title of the novel ‘Revolution Twenty20’ gives direction to our reading of the
novel with an aim to look for the theme of ‘revolution’.
This theme is represented by the character, Raghav in this novel.
Raghav, an intelligent student, who cracks JEE and AIEEE exams which ensures a
happy, rich and successful life as engineer to him. However, he is not meant for
such an easy life. He dreams to start a revolution in India – ‘The Great Indian
Revolution’. In India wherein there is ‘the Great Indian Education Race’ to crack
entrance exams or to start private colleges, Raghav’s wishful thinking seems to be a
wild dream and an ambition bound to bring a tragedy.

19. Article named “Societal Evils in Contemporary
India from Chetan Bhagat's Perspective in
Revolution 2020” by M. Rakesh Babu, E. Titus
Livingston
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20. Abstract:
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The paper entitled “Societal Evils in
Contemporary
India from Chetan Bhagat's Perspective in Revolution
2020”.Chetan says that though writing in a developing
country youngsters are failing to get recognize
Chetan Bhagat the creative writer in the field of Indian
English Literature has portrayed the mechanical life of
youngsters in his novel Revolution 2020. The paper brings
forth the empathetic life of youngsters and the political
problems in a vivid manner. It shows the life of the
protagonist and the burden faced by them through relatives
and society.

21. Introduction of Article:
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Chetan Bhagat is usually considered to speak on behalf of the Indian
entrepreneurial community.
His novels have known to rock Indian sensibility, by providing thought
provoking insights as a result of delving into the ever changing
paradigms of human conditions that find it entangled in the maze of
love, corruption and ambition in his novel, Revolution 2020.
This research paper attempts in examining a detailed account of the
happenings of Indian society, mainly in the fields of education and
politics.

22. CORRUPTION – A DEEP ROOTED POISON :
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Revolution 2020 discusses in detail about 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.
Bhagat highlights a major problem that exists among the young who are
abandoned due the loss of their loved ones – no one in society cares too
much for them!

23. The young are running out of role models who can mould them to
become leaders who not only follow their passion, but also make this
world a better place. The protagonist, who has lost both of his parents, is
now an orphan, who is despised by his relatives.
It is at this juncture of his life, that through a friend of his, he is
introduced to a political leader Shuklaji. Shuklaji has been portrayed as
one who fits the stereotype that one usually finds in Indian movies –
corrupt, loaded with unaccounted cash or black money and quite
heartless. Shuklaji is corruption personified.
Revolution 2020 rubs it in when it comes to corrupt politicians. Shuklaji
finds a way to launder his black money – give some of it to the
protagonist to start a college named Gunga Tec.
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24. Tremendous Pressure:
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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.

25. His novels present a clear picture regarding his concerns in the current
scenario prevailing in 21st century India. Most of what he wants to
convey is through the eyes of the protagonist of his various novels and
through leading newspapers.
The aspirations of the youth need to be understood and ChetanBhagat
has attempted to give voice to it through his writings.. The young person
feels that he or she has a voice in Chetan Bhagat's novels, as young
people's views are not being seriously considered. It is the elder's voice
that matters. 25
Conclusion of Article:

27. Thank You..