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

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.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

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

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.