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

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!

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

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

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

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

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.