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.

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.

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.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian 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!

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