Love's shades are myriad and moving . . .

Who first said ‘Love is a many-splendoured thing’, is a difficult matter to trace but movies, plays, poems and songs have claimed the phrase greedily over the years. Love is the most complex, perplexing phenomenon one can ever encounter, spanning the most insipid to darkest emotions known to Man. Definitions, meaning, interpretations and perspectives vary from dictionary to dictionary and from person to person. If one sits down to compile all the interpretations, the length of the compilation would surpass the length of the guide to understanding women and men and what happens between them. Perhaps this is what is meant by the many-splendoured shades of love. Shades of Love, Grapevine India's first anthology, comprises of twenty five short stories, written by some of the biggest best sellers and many debutante writers. However, each story is a different shade. From the innocent to the macabre, the mundane to the supernatural, from the soulful to the psychotic, each tale seeks to spur the reader on a journey from shade to shade.

About the Author:

Ankit Mittal was born in New Delhi, India, and completed a degree in Engineering and Business Management and works as a financial consultant in a financial technology firm. He is a voracious reader and maintains a private blog about travel and adventure. He is a fitness enthusiast and used to lead a street dance troupe in Delhi. Ankit shuttles between New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. For more updates, you can follow Ankit Mittal on Facebook and Twitter.