I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's such an irony! You're saying that the world is a global village, but then you want to spend crores of rupees on building nuclear weapons.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.