Bad Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan

There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan

When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Karan Mahajan