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Writer Quotes by Karan Mahajan

8 Writer quotes by Karan Mahajan

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Karan Mahajan’s reflections on the writer’s life are brief yet thoughtful, reflecting his focus on diaspora, identity, and modern life. These eight snippets provide a quick, nuanced look at his perspective on storytelling as a bridge across cultures.

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Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed…

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If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact…

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People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is…

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By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel…

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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.…

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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force…

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Literature has become too psychological.

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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her…

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I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get…

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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.…

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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…

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The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde…

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