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

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

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.

Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

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