By the way, I am Shyam Mehra, or Sam Marcy as they call me at my workplace, the Connections call center in Gurgaon. If I try to enumerate the no. Anyway, I’m a call-center agent. Two inches, to be precise. Jul 28, 2015 - Inspirational images and quotes companies can use to motivate, encourage and support people who are on the front lines with customers every day. Read 1,595 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. [ In the scene where the accident happens and the gang gets a phone call from God, I cannot help but wonder how easily they believed it to be as such. I hate people that like this book, which is apparently a large portion of India. I think this is the best book i have for quite sometime because it depicts so realistically what goes inside the call centers.Also you really can relate to some of the characters...the story holds you till the end and very enjoyable..... Getting to know about a call center's lifestyle was an experience in itself. It takes place during the span of one night, in which all of the leading characters want their lives to change.Told through the eyes of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalized office. The man known as Military Uncle says little, and suffers in silence with his secret pain. In this way everyone who works in the call center they fed up with their life but one night everyone receives a call from God God motivates everyone and tells the way to handle their problems He tell them not to get frustrated by problems After receiving the call the life of everyone is changed . Bhagat may not be the best writer around, but, in a way, his immature writing style really captures the essence of the youth culture he's writing about. Helpful Not Helpful. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. I picked it up at the library partly because my son works at an American call center (Comcast) and partly because it is Indian. It was the God himself. He quit his international investment banking career in 2009, to devote his entire time to writing. A phone call from God.” ©Amazon.in. One was “2 States”, and the other was, “One Night @ The Call Center”. Very mixed feelings about this book. Only Genuine Products. i decided to read this book only because this was the only book of chetan bhagat that i have nt read yet. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This is the only book I have ever read where the author thanks Microsoft and MS Word in the acknowledgments section. The way incidents were revealed and narration was extremely great. No. Hello everyone , I had just read the book ‘one night at call centre ’ .firstly let me tell you and i donot read novels alot .even though i have read some of chetan bhagat's and few more authors.i liked it alot . It is hungry, it is the truth. A great fun, inspirational One! Helpful Not Helpful. May 1st 2007 1. Esha wants to be a model, Radhika is in an unhappy marriage with a demanding mother-in-law, and military uncle wants to talk to his grandson; they all hate Bakshi, their cruel boss.Apretty - good corporate environment. There is pasta on the stove. Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. the story is so predictable if u know chetan bhagat s writing style. Tap to unmute. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. Up Next. The six oust an impossible boss, save the call center, and make vital changes in their lives. March 28, 2016 | Hemani Sehgal | 2 mins read . “The story was about six people working in a call center, set in one night. There is a savage, if not very profound critique of consumerism, which I welcomed. As I am not an admirer ( and also this is an edited version of Reader's Digest), that might be the reason I find this his best work. The 6 characters, Shyam, Priyanka, Esha, Vroom, Radhika and Military Uncle are friends, who are all working on this particular night shift together. One Night at the Call Center is set in one night in a call center in Gurgaon. They aren´t too impressed with us, either. The other agents hav. I decided to read this book as an experiment, to judge what Chetan was like, because I heard so much about how terrible a writer he is and all. I can understand why a lot of people really hate this novel: It's not that well written, it's unrelentingly insulting in its attitude toward Americans, God enters into the story in a rather goofy way, and the ending is lousy. He looks for the solution of his problems outside whereas the truth is that it lies within himself. Everyone does. This book as usual was lucid to understand , the characters were well defined but I found the story quite dragging.It was not fast moving and had twists and turns but it was sometimes boring, I loved the humour shared by the author at appropriate places which was amazing but the ending was unrealistic according to me a. I bought this book as i love chtan bhagats books .