My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

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

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

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

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?