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

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.

Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

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

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

I need to meet people to be able to write.