For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving,… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to,… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
People in the East get a very skewed sense of America as this enormously rapaciously sexual place, this place where you have… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy;… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When a bomb actually goes off, there's a lot of confusion, and people often don't know a bomb has gone off. For… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The only solace can come from the state. In the Boston bombing, only a handful of people died in the end, even… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way,… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I guess my point in general is that, if you look closely, who is in politics to self-identify - these are the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
“What has she got? Nothing but years and years of heartbreak, of being pushed physically, I am sure, into the country of her mother’s… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but that obviously… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
I don't know what you can do if it's reported that there's been a small attack in the second- or third-largest city in country… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share
