The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.