I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.