After failing to get admission to engineering college, Gopal, with the help of a corrupt MLA, starts his own engineering college. Mushrooming of private colleges by corporate houses, politicians, and non-professional rich peoples. Revolution 2020 shows few glimpses of a corrupt system in the education sector. Aarti is struggling to be an air hostess. He thinks somewhere in his mind that he will unearth scams, corruption from society, to start a revolution. Raghav passed out an engineering degree, but his dream is in journalism, so he preferred to be a journalist. Gopal got the opportunity, and with the help of a corrupt system, he became director of the engineering college. In the second phase, the story enters where all three childhood friends move further in their lives. These coaching classes are mushrooming everywhere, in big as well as small cities. Teaching classes are part of big industry, selling dreams and making money. Lacs of students appear in entrance exams like JEE or AIEEE, and few get their target fulfilled. The first half of the story is ‘no story’ as in the Indian context everybody already knows what the author is telling. He feels like nowhere, no admission in engineering lost his love and ultimately his father. While his one-year stay away from his hometown, Aarti and Raghav fell in love. His father sent him for preparation to Kota classes, taking even loans, but luck did not favour him. Raghav cleared it with his first attempt, whereas Gopal failed.

The entrance exam for engineering makes the initial twist in the story. She seems always confused about whom to accept as a partner or a friend. She is beautiful and has all in her personality to be ‘a dream lady’ in anyone’s dreams. Aarti, the bureaucrat’s daughter, wants to be an air hostess, but Varanasi, the city in north India where they all live, is too small for such ambition. Parents of both want them to become engineers, but they are moving to fulfil their own dreams. He is the son of a retired teacher who sees ‘richness’ as his aim, whereas Raghav, who comes from a well-to-do family, sees ‘revolution’ as his dream. There are twists in the tale as Gopal and Raghav both loved the same girl.

Since their school days, they were the best friends, but “Love, Corruption and Ambition” combine to bring differences between them. All three are moving together but still carrying different ambitions and dreams. Gopal, the narrator of the story, Raghav and Aarti, are friends from their school time. The storyline of ‘Revolution 2020’, a recent novel by Chetan Bhagat, revolves around a love triangle.

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