I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

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

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

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

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

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.