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

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

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

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

I need to meet people to be able to write.

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.