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In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

I love anything to do with history.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.