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

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

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!

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

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.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

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