I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.