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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.

I love Hindi films.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.