Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
I need to meet people to be able to write.
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
