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.

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.

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

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

A journey once begun, has no end