Shades of Love and other stories from India is a collection of short stories set in India’s pre and post mobile phone days. Here the characters are drawn from the Indian social milieu and they come face to face with the reader: In the backdrop of an ancient temple ritual, now defunct, called ‘dedicating’ girls to local deities, a young man hears his mother say she conceived him in sin. A boy falls in and out of love, as watched by a w