I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.