I have WORKED not just for the Dalits but for all sections of the SOCIETY.

You GO down South, and they're quirky; they have CULTURE, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to APPRECIATE the CUISINE, the music, the literature.

As an author, you THINK you know where the good parts and the BAD parts are. And then you read to a group of CHILDREN, and you learn when you're BORING them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and FLOW.

If you GO to my NETFLIX, the sections that they RECOMMEND are 'Thrillers with a Strong FEMALE Lead,' 'Comedies With a Strong Female Lead.'

When I DECIDED to come into politics, the one thing that I had in my MIND was to help the weaker sections. THEREFORE, NOBODY should accuse me of nepotism.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My PROCESS was to hang out, OBSERVE, research what I was writing about, and ALMOST immediately go back to my office and WRITE those sections. So it was a very close TRANSFER between observation and writing.