I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

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

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!

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

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.

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