Dear Paramount Pictures: Stories

Iqbal Pittalwala's debut collection focuses on the lives of ordinary South Asians in contemporary India and in the United States, giving voice to people who are usually denied a say. The eleven stories are told from the point of view of young and old, male and female - characters confronting a corrupt and chaotic society torn between changing religious and social values, economic decline, and the encroachment of superficial popular culture - cinema in particular.