It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

For me, what I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.