Sadness was so claustrophobic.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

A journey once begun, has no end

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.