Acquiescence or Rebellion: A Postcolonial Attitude in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone with a Special Reference to David Mamet’s Oleanna

Abstract

As Post-Colonialism emphasizes a contemporary state of the society, it propels Chetan Bhagat to write novels of contemporary interest that may create an awareness among his readers about the prevailing socio, political and educational condition of our country. Leela Gandhi in her Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (1998) rightly pointed out, “Post colonialism pursues a post national reading of the colonial encounter by focusing on the global amalgam of cultures and identities consolidated by imperialism (141). As a post colonial novelist, Chetan Bhagat in his Five Point Someone vividly portrays the retrogression of the quality of education in the institutions of higher education especially in IIT Campuses in India. He tries to provide an authentic report of the actual condition that exists in the IIT Campus as he himself has been one of the inmates of it. Shri N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Chairman of Infosys, vibrates the same in his speech while he regrets over the absence of the essential new projects in IIT Institutions. There is a need to overhaul the selection criteria for students seeking admission to the prestigious technology institutions … the quality of students entering Indian Institutes of Technology has deteriorated over the years due to the coaching classes that prepare the engineering aspirants … with limited sets of problems.