The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now, when there's artillery being exchanged in Kashmir - which is not for from here, either - and there are 100-ish nuclear weapons on each side of the border, there's never really been a case like this where two nuclear armed countries are happily shelling each other.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.