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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July.