I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.
I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
I was such a strong-willed child, my parents weren't sure how to deal with me.
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
