I will come back to India - so deal with it.
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.