It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

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.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.