Petals of Blood

 This blog is a response to a task assigned by Yesha Bhatt ma’am. This blog deals with Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novel Petals of Blood, we are assigned a few questions, and among them, this blog will talk about the first chapter of the novel which deals with the Interrogation of all characters.

About Author

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, original name James Thiong’o Ngugi, (born January 5, 1938, Limuru, Kenya), Kenyan writer who was considered East Africa leading novelist. His popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel  in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, Ngugi adopted his traditional name and wrote in the Bantu language of kenya's  people.

Ngugi received bachelor’s degrees from Makerere University, , in 1963 and from Leeds University, Yorkshire, England, in 1964. After doing graduate work at Leeds, he served as a lecturer in English at University College, Nairobi, Kenya, and as a visiting professor of English at North western university, Evanston, Illinois, U.S. From 1972 to 1977 he was senior lecturer and chairman of the department of at  Literure the University of NThe prizewinning Weep Not, Child is the story of a Kikuyu family drawn into the struggle for Kenyan independence during the state of emergency and the Mau Mau rebellion. 

His important work

In English

• Weep Not, Child (1964) is the first novel in English to be published by a writer from East Africa.
• The River Between (1965)
• The Grain of Wheat (1967)
• Petals of Blood (1977) his last novel in English

Written in Gikuyu and translated into English

• Devils on the Cross (1980) 
• Matigari (1986)
• Wizard of the Crow (2006)

His essays

• Homecoming (1972)
• Decolonizing the mind (1986)
• Moving the Centre (1993)
• Detained (1981)
• One the Abolishment of the English Department (1968/ 1972)
• The Asmara Declaration on African languages and Literature (2000)

About the novel

The novel Petals of Blood was published in 1977 and is set in Kenya’s fictional village Ilmorog. The bog begins in the present and moves twelve years in flashback. It deals with the four characters Munira, Wanja, Abdulla, and Karega whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion. 

Petals of Blood deals with social and economic problems in East Africa after independence, particularly the continued exploitation of peasants and workers by foreign business interests and a greedy indigenous bourgeoisie.

The novel revolves around three men and a woman. The four friends reveal different aspects of their history to each other piecemeal, just as their families had guardedly explained the past to them. The lingering effects of the Mau Mau revolt have affected all their lives and by the end of the novel, each character is wrapped up in his or her own exclusive epiphany about life in Kenya.

All four characters have come to Ilmorog to escape from city life. The novel explores corruption, social inequality, and the betrayal of the ideals of the independence movement. "Petals of Blood" was highly critical of the post-colonial government of Kenya and was banned in the country upon its release. However, it has since become a classic of African literature and has been widely translated and studied.

The novel begins with a glance at its ending: three notable Kenyans—a teacher and two successful businessmen—have died in a fire. Inspector Godfrey, who believes that the police force is “the maker of modern Kenya,” investigates. His suspicion falls on the schoolteacher Munira.

From here, the novel moves back to the beginning of the story. Schoolteacher Munira arrives in the pastoral village of Ilmorog, to take up a position at the village school. Many teachers from the city have come and gone in Ilmorog, and the villagers assume that Munira won’t last. His new neighbors treat him

with suspicion, and few children come to his classes. However, Munira befriends the owner of a local bar, Abdulla, a hero of the Mau Mau rebellion, who helps Munira to settle in the village. Munira also befriends Joseph, a young boy whom Abdulla has adopted. Eventually, Munira is accepted as one of Ilmorog’s own.

Another refugee from the city arrives, Wanja, the granddaughter of a respected Ilmorog elder. She begins working in Abdulla’s bar, helping him to expand the business. Soon, Munira finds himself falling in love with her. Munira and Wanja have a brief relationship, but Munira is married, and when Wanja discovers this, she is bitterly disappointed. She leaves the village for a time; when she returns, she breaks off the affair.

A former colleague of Munira’s, Karega, arrives in Ilmorog to question Munira about events at the school where both used to work. Karega ends up taking a position at the school. That year, the village suffers a long, dry summer and a poor harvest. Karega rallies the villagers and leads them to Nairobi to ask their Member of Parliament for help.

It is a long journey. On the way, Joseph grows very ill. As soon as the villagers they try to get help for Joseph. A minister turns them away, assuming they are beggars. Finally, they are admitted to the house of a rich man, only to be rounded up and imprisoned in the building. They are subjected to questioning by the house’s owner, Kimeria, an unscrupulous businessman who explains to the villagers that he and their MP are allies. Later, he blackmails and rapes Wanja.

Karega and Wanja start seeing one another. Seething with jealousy, Munira schemes to have Karega fired from the school. Karega is forced to leave Ilmorog.

The government begins building a new road­—the Trans-Africa road—right through the village. Workers arrive, and the village rapidly expands. Soon it is a town, New Ilmorog. The farmers of the old village are advised to fence their lands and mortgage them, so they can prove they own them. Banks offer them loans against their harvests to pay for this. When Nyakinyua dies, the bank moves to seize her land, so Wanja sells her brewery in order to buy Nyakinkua’s land. She opens a brothel catering to the new arrivals and is eventually forced to work as a prostitute herself.

Karega returns, telling Wanja that after his departure, he collapsed into alcoholism before finding a job in a factory, from which he has been fired. Though they still love each other, they cannot agree about how to live in the new Kenya, and Karega leaves again. Munira tries to rekindle their

Wanja comes up with a plan to rid herself of the men who have taken advantage of her. She invites them all to the brothel, including Karega and Kimeria. Her plan is to present Abdulla to them as her chosen partner. However, Munira sees Karega arrive and then leave again; in a fit of jealousy, he sets fire to the brothel. The other men die, while Wanja is hospitalized.

Thinking Activity on Ministry of Utmost Happiness

This blog is assigned by Dr. Dilip barad sir. It deals with Arundhati Roy’s second novel ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’. As a task, we are assigned three questions and from them, this blog deals with Characters, Narrative plot, and facts and fiction from the novel.

1) 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. (List of characters, Summary - plot - narrative structure, Fact & Fiction)

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

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NEWS

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Tick the Box: Q 1: Why did the cattle cross the LoC?

(a) For training (b) For sneak-in ops (c) Neither of the above.

THE CAREERIST:

The boy had always wanted to make something of himself. He invited four militants for dinner and slipped sleeping pills into their food. Once they had fallen asleep he called the army. They killed the militants and burned down the house. The army had promised the boy two canals of land and one hundred and fifty thousand rupees. They gave him only fifty thousand and accommodated him in quarters just outside an army camp. They told him that if he wanted a permanent job with them instead of being just a daily wage worker he would have to get them two foreign militants. He managed to get them one ‘live’ Pakistani but was having trouble finding another. ‘Unfortunately these days business is bad,’ he told PI. ‘Things have become such that you cannot any longer just kill someone and pretend he’s a foreign militant. So my job cannot be made permanent.’

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know"

-Arundhati Roy

About Arundhani Roy

Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes.

Novels and nonfiction works

In 1997 Roy published her debut novel, The God of Small Things to wide acclaim. The semiautobiographical work departed from the conventional plots and light prose that had been typical among best-sellers. Composed in a lyrical language about South Asian themes and characters in a narrative that wandered through time, Roy’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author and won the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Key facts of  Novel  Ministry  of Utmost Happiness 

Author:Arundhati Roy

Cover artist:Mayank Austen Soofi

Country:India

Language: English

Genre:Fiction

Set in:India

Publisher:Hamish Hamilton (UK & India)

Alfred A. Knopf (US)

Publication date :6 June 2017

Pages: 449

Website: theministryofutmosthappiness.com

Four  parts of the novel

 The novel has four parts and all characters  are  divided  in the four part.

Jannt/GraveYard

Khawabgah

Jantar Mantar 

Kashmir 

Characters of The novel

Kulsoom Bi, Saeeda, Bismillah, Ziauddin - the blind Imam, Gudiya & Bulbul, Bombay Silk, Jahanara Begum, Mulaqat Ali, Anjum/Aftab, Ahlam Baiji, Mary, Razia, Nimmo Gorakhpuri, Mr. Aggarwal, Tubby Old Gandhian, Manipur Nationalists, Bhopalis, Protest to make Hindi as National Language,  Jannat Guest House  - Saddam Hussein, Mr. Gupta, Captain Amrik Singh, ACP Pinky Sodhi, Balbir Sodhi, Jalil Qadri, Musa Yeswi, Gulrez, King Aurangzeb, Abhaychand, Hazrat Sarmad, Zainab, Changez Khan, Borte Khatun, Sakim, Sangeeta Madam, Sherawat, Dr, Azad, Gujrat ka Lalla, Trapped Rabbit, Biplab Das Gupta, Charerupa, Rabia and Ania, Hariharan Nagarjun, S, Tillotama, Maryam Ipe, Arifa, Jebeen , Baby - Jebeen(The second Udaya), Khadijha, Aijaz, Revathy. 

Anjum/Aftab:The story started in the khawabgah where the protagonist Anjum is introduced he/she was born as a intersex child.

Mulaqat Ali:Mulaqut Ali was a father of Anjum/Aftab

Jahanara Begum:she was mother of Anjum and wife of Mulaqat Ali.

Kulsoom Bi:The Head Hijra of the Khwabgah, Ustad Kulsoom Bi is a powerful member of the transgender community in Delhi.

Tilo: A mysterious, dark-skinned, South Indian woman who seemingly has no past, no caste, and no family, Tilo is a highly independent and secretive character.

Biplab Dasgupta :The first-person narrator of a large portion of the novel, Biplab Dasgupta is a Brahmin high-ranking bureaucrat in the Indian government with an alcohol addiction.

Saddam Hussain

A member of the Dalit caste and former security guard, Saddam Hussain is Anjum’s first permanent guest at Jannat Guest House and Funeral Services

Imam Ziauddin

The first friend Anjum makes when she moves to the graveyard, the old Imam Ziauddin is blind and often bonds with Anjum when she reads newspaper articles to him.

Miss Jebeen

Musa’s daughter, who dies at the age of three in a massacre in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Miss Jebeen the Second / Miss Udaya Jebeen

Also known as Miss Udaya Jebeen, Miss Jebeen the Second is the baby Revathy gives up at the Jantar Mantar protest, whom Tilo kidnaps and then raises at Jannat Guest House with Anjum.

Musa

Tilo’s lover and a member of the Kashmiri resistance, Musa participates in a play with Tilo, Biplab, and Naga as a young man while he is in architecture school.

Major Amrik Singh

A major of the Indian Army known for torturing and murdering many members of the resistance, Major Amrik Singh is an extraordinarily violent man.

Revathy

Miss Jebeen the Second’s birth mother who sends a letter to Jannat Guest House via Dr. Azad Bhartiya explaining who she is. A low-caste woman from a rural area in India.

Mr. Aggarwal

A bureaucrat and aspiring politician, Mr. Aggarwal is present at the protests at Jantar Mantar trying to build a name for himself.

Saeeda

A “more modern” Hijra who lives with Anjum at the Khwabgah, Saeeda is young Zainab’s second favorite.

2.Narrative Structure/Summary of the novel 

The novel skips backwards and forwards in time freely, often pauses for detours into the stories of minor characters and includes several texts within the main text Bhartiya’s manifesto however, the novel consists of two main narrative threads, one of which is centered in Delhi, and the other in Kashmir.

The first begins with Anjum, a Muslim Hijra Anjum, who is born intersex and named Aftab, is initially raised as a boy. Once Aftab enters adolescence, however, he rejects this male identity and joins the Khwabgah, or “House of Dreams”—a local community of Hijras—taking the name Anjum. Anjum spends more than three decades in the Khwabgah, earning her living as an entertainer and a sex worker. Although she becomes quite successful, she longs to experience life as an “ordinary” woman and, in her 40s, adopts an abandoned toddler whom she names Zainab. However, her plans to leave the Khwabgah and live with Zainab as a typical mother and daughter are thwarted by the rise of anti-Muslim feeling in the early 2000s. While making a religious pilgrimage, Anjum is attacked by rioting Hindu nationalists in the Indian state of Gujarat—an experience that leaves her too traumatized to care for Zainab and eventually prompts her to leave the Khwabgah altogether.

Anjum moves into an old Muslim cemetery, intending to stay there until she herself dies. Over time, however, and with the support of friends from her former life, Anjum begins to come to terms with her experiences, and makes a real home for herself in the graveyard. She builds a house, complete with facilities like electricity, and eventually takes in fellow lodgers. The two most significant of these are a blind imam (Muslim spiritual leader) named Ziauddin, and a young man who gives his name as Saddam Hussain, but who is in fact a Dalit (the lowest class in the Indian caste system) seeking vengeance for his father’s murder.

The second major storyline takes place partly in Delhi, but primarily concerns events that occurred in Kashmir in the 1990s, which Roy explores from several different characters’ perspectives. The figure at the heart of all these narratives is S. Tilottama, or “Tilo”—the illegitimate daughter of a well-to-do Syrian Indian woman who “adopted” Tilo several months after the child was actually born. Tilo grows up to attend architectural school in Delhi, which is where she meets three men who fall in love with her: Biplab Dasgupta (a cautious and pragmatic man who goes on to work for the Indian government), Nagaraj Hariharan (the charming and passionate son of upper-crust Hindu bureaucrats who becomes first a radical journalist and later and Musa . All four characters fall out of contact after college, but their lives intersect again years later in Kashmir, where separatists are waging a war for independence against the Indian Army.

One night in Kashmir, Biplab Dasgupta (who is posted in the region) receives a call that Tilo has been arrested in a raid and sends Musa (who is also there on assignment) to pick her up from army headquarters. Both men assume that the “Commander Gulrez” who was killed in the raid alongside Tilo must have been Musa, who had joined the separatist movement after his wife and daughter (“Miss Jebeen”) were mistakenly shot and killed by Indian forces. However, Roy eventually reveals that this was not the case: The man identified as “Commander Gulrez” was simply a mentally disabled man who worked on the houseboat where Musa and Tilo were visiting with one another (Musa himself had left some hours before the raid).

On Musa’s advice, Tilo marries Naga shortly after her arrest. Soon after the wedding, she discovers that she is pregnant (by Musa) but has an abortion because she fears that her own relationship with a child would be no better than her mother’s relationship was with her. She also remains traumatized by her experiences in Kashmir and eventually separates from Naga after 14 years of marriage, no longer able to bear the double life she’s leading. After the divorce, she spends four years in an apartment she rents from Dasgupta, who, after she leaves, finds an array of papers in her rooms dealing with Kashmir and the trips Tilo has made there over the years.

Tilo’s reasons for leaving her apartment are where her story intersects with Anjum’s. Sometime in the 2010s, a series of protests erupt at Jantar Mantar in downtown Delhi (Roy’s fictionalized account is likely based on the 2011 anti-corruption and land acquisition protests). Anjum, Saddam Hussain, and a few of their friends have gone to Jantar Mantar to see the demonstrations for themselves, when they suddenly hear that an abandoned baby has been found in the crowd. Anjum hopes to take charge of the little girl herself, but before she can, a mysterious woman—Tilo—whisks the child away.

Tilo takes the baby (whom she names Miss Jebeen the Second) on impulse, feeling that the child will somehow “turn the tide” Fearing police involvement, however, she readily agrees to leave her apartment when Saddam Hussain leaves a card for her with the address of Anjum’s cemetery home, Jannat Guest House and Funeral Parlor. Tilo accordingly moves into the cemetery with the baby and slowly begins to move beyond the trauma of her experiences in Kashmir.

Jannat Guest House, meanwhile, has become a bustling business and community center. One regular visitor is Zainab (now a seamstress), who eventually becomes engaged to and marries Saddam, who has decided to set aside his quest for vengeance in the knowledge that other Dalits are carrying on the fight. Both he and Tilo gain additional closure when Imam Ziauddin, Anjum, and the rest of Jannat’s makeshift family symbolically “bury” the ashes of Tilo’s mother, as well as a shirt they have bought in honor of Saddam’s father. Eventually, the group also buries a letter they receive from Miss Jebeen the Second’s birthmother—a Maoist freedom fighter who became pregnant as the result of rape and who has since died in action.

Meanwhile, Dasgupta continues to obsess over the documents he found in Tilo’s apartment. When Musa unexpectedly stops by one night, Dasgupta admits that he now believes the Kashmiri separatists are in the right. However, he doesn’t move beyond this realization and begins to slide into alcoholism.

Musa visits Tilo at Jannat Guest House; although both he and Tilo are aware that he will likely be killed when he returns to the fighting in Kashmir, she is now able to make peace with that fact. As the novel ends, Anjum takes Miss Jebeen the Second out for a walk through nighttime Delhi, and even the dung beetle that lives near Jannat Guest House feels that “things would turn out all right in the end […] Because Miss Jebeen, Miss Udaya Jebeen, was come”

Fact & Fiction :

2002 Godhara Riots in Gujrat

Truma to anjum their visit of Gujrat

Lynching of dalits Una Gujrat

Dayachand father's killing in Haryana

War between china and america

Hanging of saddam Hussein

Anna Hazare Movement in 2011

News about tubby old Gandhian in Jantar Mantar

Narendra Modi

Gujrat ka lalla

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

S. Tilottama is a character in the novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by Arundhati Roy. She is a transgender woman who is one of the central characters in the novel. She is a resident of the graveyard-turned-home known as "Jannat Guest House" and is known for her kind and nurturing nature. She is also a strong advocate for the rights of transgender individuals and works to create a sense of community and acceptance within the guest house. Despite the hardships and discrimination she faces, Tilottama maintains a positive attitude and a deep sense of empathy towards others. She is a complex and nuanced character who plays an important role in the novel's exploration of issues such as identity, marginalization, and the human capacity for love and compassion.

Revolution 2020

This blog is a response to a task assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. In the paper Contemporary English Literature, This blog deals the Chetan Bhagat’s 5th Novel Revolution 2020 which was Published in 2011. This blog deals with the tile significance and social realism in Revolution 2020 (R2020) and an insight about How it would be better if it were narrated from Raghav or Aarti's perspective.

 About Author

Chetan Bhagat, a rising star in the contemporary modern Indian literature, is a multitalented 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 Bhagat status of the youth icon.

All of them were bestsellers since their release and have been filmed by famous Bollywood directors. Chetan Bhagat is considered a youth icon rather than as just an author. With his vivid and humorous way of depicting stories, he has inspired reading habits in many young Indians. He is also a good columnist and writes columns for many leading newspapers. According to him, novels are entertainment tools through which he expresses his views and opinion about society and the youth. Development issues and national issues are addressed through columns. Chetan's columns are written in a way that directly points out the issues within our country and in many times it has even triggered discussions in the parliament. He is not only a good writer but also a motivational speaker and has given many motivational speeches at many colleges, organizations and companies.

Novels of Chetan Bhagat:

• Five point someone
• One night @call center(2006)
• The Three  mistakes of my life (2008)
• 2 states (2009)
• Revolution 2020 (2011)
• Half Girlfriend(2014)
• One Indian girl (2016)
• The Girl in room 105 (2018)
• one arrange murder (2020)
• 400 days (2021)

Writing Style of Chetan Bhagat

The writing style  of Chetan  Bhagat is youth friendly he always take side of the youth character rather than old one. He has focused the interest of the youth and has written about their aspirations. He has attempts to guide their ripe energies into proper direction. He is not only considered as an author by the readers but also considered as the youth icon. Revolution 2020 is looking like  quite Bollywoodish novel.

Bhagat use simple language in his work which can be simply understand by readers. Those who read bhagat they became fan of him, but there are also haters of him here i put that video in which one lady is against Chetan  Bhagat. The name of that show is "Love to Hate You"

About Novel Revolution 2020

The novel mainly deals with the theme of Love, Corruption and Ambition. There are many characters in the novel in that three  major characters are :

Gopal

Aarti

Raghav

The Novel has setting of Varanasi as the cover page of the novel also show the reader that there is something of Varanasi  there is also description of Varanasi that the word varanasi is made by two words Varun+Assi there is also detailed description of it.

In the novel there is three major character

 Gopal :who is protagonist of the novel who  wanted to use his intelligence to make money.

Aarti: Aarti wanted to  be An Airhostess but she was not so much passionate regarding her career her father was District magistrate .

Raghav: Raghav  wanted to use his intelligence  to start revolution he was one in novel who passed both the exam AIEEE and also JEE.

Social Realism in the novel

The novel is Mainly Based on the youth issues which is  also seen  in contemporary life, and novel also deals with  political  issue like education in corruption and many more things which is also social reality of contemporary  life.

The whole novel revolves around the three main characters Gopal, Aarti, and Raghav all of three were school friends and IIT aspirants. Raghav’s father of engineer (educated), Aarti’s father was an Ias officer and Gopal’s father was a school teacher and farmer. All three had different family backgrounds, Raghav could crack the AIEEE/ JEE exam with a good rank and got admission to BHU-IT while Gopal cracked the exam but couldn't score well. So, he was sent to Kota the preparation for the exam. Aarti’s character keeps on oscillating between her love interest Raghav and Gopal.

 this novel deals with the concerns in the life of youth. Raghav got admission to BHU- IT but he wished to be a social reformer and after his education, he began a newspaper named Revolution 2020 in which he used to write the social and political realities of the societies. Gopal met MLA Shuklaji when he was very young and without having finished his schooling. He then started a private college, and the entire institution is built on corruption and bribery, beginning with the purchase of land. Gopal saw everything in terms of money, and he spoke in constant monetary terms. here the bhagat wants to show ugly face of Indian Education  System through the setting of Kota and how Gopal who was uneducated running  a private college for Engineering. At the end of the novel Gopal visits raghav's Garage where he is running his newspaper revolution 2020 Gopal came there with his  black Mercedes which is show off of  Gopal's wealth and this incident show the readers that Gopal wanted to show his superiority.

In addition to showing the deplorable side of the private education system, Bhagat also depicts the scenarios of Kota, Rajasthan, which has developed into a coaching school hub and is still present in 2023. It also depicts the incident involving Manoj Dutta, the former PG in Gopal's room, who hanged himself. Gopal's father wanted him to become an engineer, which is the genuine tale in the lives of many children, thus he was compelled to attend school in Kota.

Significance of the title 'Revolution Twenty20'

If we study the cover page then we came to know that revolution title itself including the theme of Love which is can be seen in character of Aarti.

• The word Love is included in this Revolutionary narrative through artful title writing. The title implies that the emphasis on the theme of revolution is weighing down on the theme of love.
• The love -story has the canvas story of revolution or vice-versa.
• The theme of revolution is covered in the theme of love.

Another observation can be that in 2011 there is IPL Twenty20 along with that year only  here chetan Bhagat use twenty 20 only which we interpret to refer to the cricket frenzy that year because it was published in 2011. This is a lacuna in the title's explanation that we are attempting to fill. The author has never explicitly explained anything in this area.

Do you think that an opportunity for 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?

Yes it is because it is only told from the perspective of   Gopal  only and he is only talking about his life  he is not talking about that what happened with Raghav and what about his newspaper Revolution 2020 in  the  beginning Aarti wanted to be Airhostess here author can not bring perspective of All characters. 

If it would be narrated by Raghav Kashyap then  it would be better because  in  the novel Raghav  is only  who cracked AIEEE with good score. Instead of choose Engineering he choose the field of Journalism by which he can bring revolution. for his passion he didn't give time to Aarti.

on the other hand our protagonist  Gopal   who wanted to be Engineer but he can not scoring well in exam then he goes to private coaching center Kota Rajasthan  and after that he became director of the private college by the way of corruption   Raghav Kashyap had recounted it instead of Gopal Mishra, whose narration is overshadowed by the theme of love. Despite being an educated scholar and coming from an upper-class, conventional household, it can be challenging to follow your passion. Aarti abandons her goals to become a regular girlfriend or bride in today's environment when students like Gopal look for life's shortcuts. For young people trying to navigate the challenging questions of life, Raghav's narrative may have been motivational.

Revolution 2020 presentation.pptx from Hirvapandya1