--- title: "1 Larger Attacks Quotes By Karan Mahajan" description: "1 Larger Attacks quotes by Karan Mahajan. Plus more from Karan Mahajan and more Larger Attacks sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/karan-mahajan-6691_attention_but-i-think-the-goal-of-all-these-attack_1144360.jpg" --- > [But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of these attacks were meant to be small. Some of them might have been failed larger attacks. And some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/but-i-think-the-goal-of-all-these-attacks-is-the-same-which-is-to/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/karan-mahajan-6691_attention_but-i-think-the-goal-of-all-these-attack_1144360.jpg) ## More by Karan Mahajan > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/when-we-talk-about-9-11-and-26-11-which-is-the-shorthand-for-the/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/i-m-more-interested-than-philip-roth-in-understanding-women-even-if-i/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/you-can-say-that-a-small-attack-is-one-in-which-relatively-few-people/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/there-s-a-hustling-but-also-a-self-centred-vibe-you-can-get-from/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/i-think-indians-will-pick-up-on-a-lot-of-the-direct-commentary-on/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/in-delhi-where-i-grew-up-commerce-is-brusque-you-don-t-ask-each-other/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/in-some-ways-the-best-novel-about-terrorism-though-it-s-not-a-novel/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/literature-has-become-too-psychological-we-discount-the-physical-when/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/when-more-chinese-started-coming-after-the-gold-rush-employed-on/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/what-has-she-got-nothing-but-years-and-years-of-heartbreak-of-being/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/it-s-easier-to-set-off-a-bomb-that-kills-innocent-civilians-in-a/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/how-do-you-prevent-attacks-from-becoming-the-very-fabric-of-lived/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/if-india-hadn-t-become-a-troubled-space-for-me-somehow-i-wouldn-t/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/i-don-t-know-what-you-can-do-if-it-s-reported-that-there-s-been-a/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) > [The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/the-west-in-the-form-of-american-capitalism-is-seen-as-having-won-but/) [Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/larger-attacks/karan-mahajan/#itemlist", "name": "1 Larger Attacks Quotes By Karan Mahajan", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. 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