Ashwin Sanghi

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish. ”

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely. ”

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. ”

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. ”

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to. ”

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay. ”

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present. ”

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. ”

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller. ”

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved. ”