Collateral Clay — Book Description
What begins as a simple love story inside a small-town college slowly transforms into a tragedy fueled by fear, politics, pride, and division.
Set in the tense atmosphere of Attibele, Collateral Clay follows the lives of Satya, Dhanya, Thomas, and Dhanush — ordinary young people whose dreams, friendships, and love become trapped between language-based hatred and societal pressure. As rumors spread, emotions harden, and politics manipulates public fear, innocence slowly turns into collateral damage.
But this is not merely a story about Kannada and Tamil conflicts. It is a reflection of every wall humanity has ever built — language, religion, caste, borders, and belief. Through grief, betrayal, love, and loss, the novel explores how easily humans abandon truth when fear becomes more powerful than compassion.
Raw, emotional, and deeply philosophical, Collateral Clay is a haunting portrayal of how ordinary lives are shaped, broken, and sacrificed by the divisions created by society itself.
Because in the end, God did not create these walls. Humans did.