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

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.