I need to meet people to be able to write.

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

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

I need to meet people to be able to write.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

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.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.