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.

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

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

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

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!'

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!

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