Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

If words are not music, they have failed your song.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.