Ravinder Singh: The Evolving Writer of Popular Fiction

Abstract

During the developmental course, a number of new popular fiction writers have emerged and gained wide popularity in the last decade in India amongst whom are Chetan Bhagat, Shobha De, Vikram Seth, Ashwin Sanghi, Preeti Shenoy, and Ravinder Singh. Recently, Chetan Bhagat's One Night at the Call Center (2005), Five Point Someone (2007), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2004), and Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition have stood distinguished in the field of contemporary Indian Popular Fiction. Other contributors such as Ashwin Sanghi's Chanakya's Chant (2020), Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us (2006), Preeti Shenoy's Life is What You Make It, (2011), Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns (2013), Radhakrishnan Pillai's Chanakya in Daily Life (2016), Prabhu Swaminathan's Wasted in Engineering: Story of India's Youth (2014) and Roopesh Kumar's I'm an Average Looking Boy... Will You Be My Girlfriend? (2017) have carved out a special niche for the genre of Popular Fiction.