It is primarily around him that the story evolves and stirringly revolves. Chetan has clothed him in flesh and blood adding more teeth to his character than any other in the book. The character of Gopal is well sketched out, and Mr. The main setting is the holy city of Varanasi and the story is told as a flashback through the eyes of Gopal to the author in a hospital after regaining consciousness from a drunken stupor at his home. The story centers around five primary characters, Aarti, Gopal, Raghav, Shukla and Baba(Gopal's ailing Father). The story mirrors those aspirations in a comical narrative and records change of vicissitudes of fortune that the protagonists find themselves in and stands tribute to the infinite possibilities that the common people of India is now faced with in their lives. The skewed ratio for a common man to have a shot at the riches were now more favourable than it had been earlier in the past.

The opening of the Indian Economy and end of licensing Raj meant that people for the first time in their life were more freer to pursue dreams since independence. Revolution 2020 mirrors this change , which in a very brief time of 20 years, has went through a very rapid and successive cultural and ethical mini revolutions. It may be presumed that pre 1991, India was a liberal communistic social economy and with the collapse of USSR, a new world order emerged which changed the status quo of the patriarchal society long enmeshed in the cultural fabric of India. Chetan Bhagat is a modernist writer, in simple terms, his writings reflect the social upheaval post 1991.

Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat