I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.