It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.