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

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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