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.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

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