Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!