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…

— Karan Mahajan

Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent.…

— Karan Mahajan

Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I…

— Karan Mahajan

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

In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not…

— Karan Mahajan

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

In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base…

— Karan Mahajan

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

— Karan Mahajan

I guess my point in general is that, if you look closely, who is in politics to self-identify - these are the…

— Karan Mahajan

I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan

The only solace can come from the state. In the Boston bombing, only a handful of people died in the end, even…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan

I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight…

— Karan Mahajan

Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

— Karan Mahajan

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost…

— Karan Mahajan