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

Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

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

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?