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

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.

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.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

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

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere