Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

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.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.