It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.