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.

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.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

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

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.