It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

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

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.