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

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

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

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

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

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.

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.