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
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
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
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for… — 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
Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi. — 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 might get… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
