My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.