Urban Shots

''I loved Siddhartha I told myself. Loved him for his handsome dignity for the way he loved me for the way he cared about me for the way he looked at me as if I was his… Why was it that I could only think of Atul then? Of our illicit meetings of his hungry kisses of his cardamom-ey taste?'' Sometimes touching at times funny and always straight from the heart Urban Shots: Love Collection is a compilation of love stories - with a distinctly contemporary Indian flavour. Spanning arranged matches premarital sexual encounters same-sex relationships and extramarital affairs this book paints for us an urban landscape of contrasts - where astrological charts and the need for parental consent coexist with casual dating. In the poignant ''Making Out'' motivated by compassion a girl unlocks the painful secrets of her date''s past and offers a healing touch. In the funny ''High Time'' a potential groom''s conservative Tamil parents beat a hasty retreat when they realize that the NRI match they''ve chosen for their son has ''boyfriends'' hidden in her past. And in the grungily unromantic ''32 B'' a prank backfires when the protagonist realizes that she desires the guy she has been leading on.