Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Humans are animals of habit.

Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.