I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories... teach us whether we are the option or we are comparing.
some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories...tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us .
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.
Ignorance nor enlighten is pointless drama
Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your a...
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his ...
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
