Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.