My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

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.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

Will somebody hold me?

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?