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Nothing is unfilmable.

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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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