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!

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

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.