Books Quote by Karan Mahajan

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

— Vikram Seth

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the…

— Pankaj Mishra

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to…

— Karan Bajaj

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 world as…

— Karan Mahajan

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

— Ravi Subramanian

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own…

— Amish Tripathi

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock…

— F. Sionil Jose

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

— Salman Rushdie

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian,…

— James Welch