Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.