I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

A journey once begun, has no end