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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.