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.

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

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

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

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

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.