I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

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

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.