Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Tamils travel a lot, especially from the southern districts to Chennai, and a journey can be 1,000 km by rail. People have relatives scattered all over and they also travel at festival times and weddings.