I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

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

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

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

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.