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

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

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 ….

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

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and dep….

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're se….

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, an….

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….

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

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not he….

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs ….