Amit Varma “The end of Alice Munro’s magisterial short story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain. That’s one of the greatest love stories, encompassing every aspect of love, not just the romantic kind. If you want a favourite moment on film, I’d go with Tomek telling Magda, in the sixth episode of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog, that he does not watch her anymore. Immensely poignant.” Amit Varma is the author of My Friend Sancho and the blog India Uncut.
	Amrita Chowdhury “From Summer Moonshine by P.G. Wodehouse, when Joe Vanringham, the man with a thousand funny words, cannot stop proposing to Jane every time he meets her and she doesn’t take him seriously. And in Hindi cinema, Salim and Anarkali under that tree with Tansen singing in the background, soft white flowers falling on them in Mughal-e-Azam. I always wish night would stop right there.” Amrita Chowdhury is the author of Faking It.
	Parmesh Shahani “My favourite romance in literature is the one between Lata and Haresh in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy. I think a lot of Indians would relate. And for film I would pick the offbeat love story of Forrest and Jenny in Forrest Gump. Because I can relate.” Parmesh Shahani is the author of Gay Bombay.
	Jaishree Misra “I can’t help cheating a bit on this one as it’s from a literary adaptation, but it just has to be that moment in the BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice when Darcy emerges dripping wet from the lake as Lizzie Bennet watches all agog! My favourite romance on film is a French one, called Romeo et Juliette. A tender exploration of an unlikely extra marital liaison. Quite unforgettable, confirming that Paris is indeed the city to fall in love in. Jaishree Misra is most recently the author of Secrets and Lies.
	Anuja Chauhan “My favourite romantic moment in literature is that bit in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss when Stephen Guest comes over to meet Maggie Tulliver, and he knows very well that her cousin Lucy (whose suitor he officially is) is not at home. They have this very strained but totally simmering?conversation! It’s totally toe-curling. My best-loved romantic moment in cinema is the Spidey-MJ upside-down kiss in Spiderman I.” Anuja Chauhan is the author of The Zoya Factor.

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