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

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!

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

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.

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.

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