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.

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

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.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

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 am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.