Home is the place where you feel happy.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.