I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.