No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

The Draft Model Police Act of 2006, as part of police reforms, provided for Special Security Zones to be created in the red corridor, which is a common development area. That means bringing together diverse political components but working through a coordinated bureaucracy.

Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.

The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.

Many years ago, when I was born in the '50s - '50s and '60s didn't belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.