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

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

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

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

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

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.