Urban Shots

After being unemployed for four years, it's hard to smile. Tuitions brought in some money but the damn inflation was wreaking havoc with my monthly budget.oans had mounted to dangerousevels and I had become desperate to do something'. Urban Shots: Brightights is a kaleidoscopic collection of short stories, at once delightful, intense and disturbing, each narrated with an honesty of voice that peels off theayers of contemporary India to reveal its core. In the humorous 'Maami Menace', Sathyavati racks her brains to escape an over bearing elderlyady the charming 'Good Morning Nikhil' follows a baby's antics around the house and in the curiously touching 'Hot Masala', Mr. Kamath hatches a wicked plan to show his family better days. Filled with compassion, wisdom and gentle humor, the stories in this anthology are as much about urban India as they are about the flawed people who inhabit it.

Paritosh Uttam is a software professional and a writer by passion. He is an engineering graduate from IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore. His first novel, Dreams in Prussian Blue, was published in 2010. He lives in Pune with his wife, Smita and son, Palash.