He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP), and then we have the Congress party, which does almost worse things, but does it by night. And people feel that the only choices they have are to vote for this or for that. And my point is that, whoever you vote for, it doesn't have to consume all the oxygen in the political debate.