Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.