In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

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

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

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

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

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