So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

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

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.