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Did you begin writing as a child? What was your childhood like?Well, I never wrote anything in my childhood. In fact, I had a sort of a nomadic childhood, mostly away from India. I lived outside, like a lot the Middle-East, Muscat, Dubai, Doha; also some time In Sri Lanka; then, for a couple of years in Mussoorie. I also went to many schools; I didn’t know where I actually belonged back then. I have done British and American schools, ICSE schools, and basically schools of all kinds. However, having said that, we as a…

Back in 1982, computers meant one of two things in the popular imagination. Either they were room-sized machines used by the military-industrial complex to crunch data on stuff like nuclear wars and stock markets, or they were fridge-sized arcade games such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man. Kraftwerk were singing about home computers, but if you owned one at all, it was probably a Sinclair ZX81, which was only marginally more sophisticated than a calculator.And yet, that summer, cinemagoers were catapulted into the digital…

With a career like yours, people assume success must have come quickly. Were there times when you struggled to find work as an actor? galacticheroOh, absolutely. I had left school and was working for Boots, and joined an amateur group in my home town. Someone suggested I go to drama school and, as I’d got bored with working in a shop, I thought: “Oh right, I’ll have a go.” And I got a place. With the help of one of the managers from Boots, I got funding to go to Rada from Cheshire county council. After I left drama…