How do you feel about the Commonwealth prize?
Specially if you stump Arundhati Roy to it?
Naipaul recently said India will see more and more writers now.
Your book is a considerable departure from your debut novel. Why?
But why Bombay? Don't you think it's been done to death?
Has all 'good writing' to come out of independent India been in English?
Why is the Indian book market still minuscule?
Why can't writers here subsist on their writing, like in the west?
So agents in London are saying magical realism gets undue attention...
What's your next project?