A journey once begun, has no end.

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

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

This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinkin….

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in….

Sadness was so claustrophobic..

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

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?.

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

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere..

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..

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans..

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

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

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which wa….

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….

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't ….

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

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't l….

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

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