That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

We all owe death a life.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.