When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

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.

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.

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

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

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

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.