These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.