Ajay Navaria is the author of the novel Udhar ke log, the short-story collections Pathkatha aur anya kahaniyan and Yes, Sir, and four volumes of criticism. His work has been translated into English, German, and Japanese, and his Unclaimed Terrain, a collection of his short stories translated into English by Laura Brueck, was published in 2013. He is an associate professor of Hindi at Jamia Millia Islamia university and the president of the Dait Writers Association of India.