When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.