We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

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.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

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.