The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.