The Media Manipulation in Chetan Bhagat’s The Three Mistakes Of My Life

Abstract

                Chetan Bhagat is a contemporary writer. He is an entertaining social novelist from India. His writings concern about the civic responsibilities. He highlights the social issues in non- provocative narration. Here, this article explores the pervasive social problem called ‘media manipulation and hegemony’ in the novel The Three Mistakes of My Life. How the media moulds a society is represented here and the deception and domination of the media is scrutinized.  The character ‘Ishaan’ is seen as focal that the exploration of socio-cultural milieu regarding the impact of the media is to be done. Through his life journey which is talked by the first person narrator Govind who is friend of Ishaan, this generation’s deviation and decline from practical life is explained well and the media maniac society is portrayed precisely.  The novel pasteurizes the dependant nature called extreme passion or fanaticism on the media and sports degrading the citizens. The influence of media over the society is assessed through the qualitative research methodology to screen the lurking obstacle and how it manipulates the social constituent.