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!

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.

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

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

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

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

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.