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I'm not too interested in books about India.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I am always fascinated by India.

If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.