Attention Quote by Karan Mahajan

“'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.”

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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…

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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…

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You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense…

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

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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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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…

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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 by, or…

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

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“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…

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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…

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