When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.