I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.