Popular fiction is often brushed aside by the academia as it is usually discerned as quick-reads presenting everyday life in a one-dimensional manner. This paper makes an attempt to show, using Chetan Bhagat‘s bestseller One Night @The Call Center, how such popular texts mine out latent structures and representations in societies in an entertaining manner. Everyday activities of people make space into place that is socially constructed through our relations. While presenting these everyday lives in these popular fictions, the texts also make efforts to unravel the politics of space. In order to ‗read‘ space, one has look into the several dimensions of space—physical, symbolic, metaphoric, sentimental, professional (author-reader-text) and political—used in the portrayal of significant social issues. Such a reading would show how popular fiction in a seemingly effortless manner uncovers the performance and cultural politics of space. The Foucauldian concept of heterotopias would help to elaborate on this argument. Taken from the Greek, ‗hetero‘ means ‗other‘ or ‗different‘ and ‗topia‘ means place. Thus heterotopias literally translate as ‗places of difference‘
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