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

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

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

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

One does not question a miracle.

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.