It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

As a human being living one's life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.