Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.