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

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

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.

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

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

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