“My daughter is married here in Patiala and I have shared a bond with P...” — Gulzar Quote

My daughter is married here in Patiala and I have shared a bond with Punjabi as a language.

It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.