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

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

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

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!

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.