Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

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

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

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.