Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.