The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.

Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.