The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

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.

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

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