Price can change due to reprinting, price change by publisher or sourcing cost change for imported books.Ajay Navaria is the author of two collections of short stories, Pathkathaauranyakahaniyan (2006) and Yes, Sir (2012), and one novel, Udhar ke log.Table of Contents,Index,Syllabus,summary and image of Unclaimed Terrain book may be of a different edition or of the same title.Unclaimed Terrain Book is not for reading online or for free download in PDF or eBook format.Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others History pounces without warning, people wield the smallest details against each other, and the reader emerges from the pages of this fierce book wiser. The expert but unsentimental stories in Unclaimed Terrain suggest two answers: that there are as many solutions as there are crises, and that some of those solutions are themselves crises. His stories are full of wit and wisdom, occasionally brutal but always beautiful Mohammed Hanif At the core of Ajay Navaria s writing is the question of what ought to be done about unfairness and its legal twin, injustice. I am not sure if new India ever realized that it needed a new Premchand, but in Navaria India has got one. The stories are wrenching, but they still make us believe that things are changing, slowly, but for the better Arundhati Roy Ajay Navaria is a master storyteller.

He moves easily between village and city, probing difficult terrain in which the memory of unspeakable violence physical as well as social is overlaid with anger, the yearning for revenge, the sweet, uneasy taste of triumph, and sometimes, justice. Ajay Navaria writes with fury laced with dark humor. Unclaimed Terrain heralds the arrival of a bold new voice in Indian literature. They inhabit a grey zone they linger in the transitional passageway between past object and future subject, casteism and democracy. As complex as they are political, Navaria s characters ranging from a brahmin peon to a dalit male prostitute are neither black nor white, neither clearly good nor evil. The city teaches him the many meanings of labor, and he is freed if ultimately destroyed by its infinite possibilities for self-invention. Journeying from a Dantewada village to the town of Nagpur and from there to Mumbai, the Byronic protagonist is raped, works as a masseur and then as a gigolo even while pursuing his education. He occupies an unclaimed terrain, as do many of Navaria s characters. The narrator rejects having his identity constrained by the cruel monikers assigned by the caste Hindus of his village or the supposed refuge of the Christian church. In Scream the lead story in Ajay Navaria s collection the unnamed protagonist is told at the outset, Crime is very seductive.

Unclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria