I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

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

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.