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

To remain standing one often has to fall.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

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

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

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.

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