If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact… — 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'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
I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very… — 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
I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think I know a lot of fake two-faced Ivy League liberals, and I am constantly testing them to see if their… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
As for the Jewish-American question, what's funny is that I grew up in India, and the Jewish-American comparison is better for second-generation… — 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
But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It's the feeling right from the beginning that the government is not on your side, the government thinks you're going to use… — 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
