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I visit India a lot.

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.

I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there.

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.