Quote

I like stories that affect families.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

I come from a multicultural family.

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.