No Man's Land is a story of generations. There are three generations that pass through a number of consequences and changes happening within and outside. The story begins with Ramdev who is a small time shopkeeper engaged in selling paints. Gradually when his son, Agastya, takes the reigns of business, he turns it around into a bigger horizon by opening various branches in various cities. Agastya falls out for a girl, Shailja, who is 8 years elder to him or probably it is the girl who falls for him first. Both stay in neighborhood and Shailja's father works for Agastya's father, Ramdev. Gradually Agastya crosses his school and college days and reaches to a marriageable stage where he is forced by his father to tie up knots with some decent girl. Shailja, who has already got married, on the wishes of her father, is still in contact with Agastya.
But so far I have not mentioned anything about the land though the title says No Man's Land. Well, the land is there - 50 acres of land in one of the villages in Gurgaon that was bought by Ramdev at a time when it had no value. When a dispute grows during the well running business, betwen Ramev, Agastya and Agastya's brother-in-law; Agastya decides to call it off and requests his father to give him that barren, no value, isolated land to him.
There is a lot more about this land that turns its faces from an unwanted barren land to a land that becomes a desire of many people to acquire or grab. Overall No Man's Land by Nilesh Shirvastava is an interesting read to go for...
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