The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

A journey once begun, has no end

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

We learn to do by doing.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.