I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they’re angry about. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
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 successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn’t make for great fiction because there isn’t the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn’t have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures – fast roads, malls, flyovers – that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
Apparently, the city of Delhi is a ‘character’ in my novels. I’d argue that it’s a … city… in my novels. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
I’m good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don’t necessarily understand the value of long scenes. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don’t want anyone to read them. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
When you’ve finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers. Karan Mahajan Read Quote
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 will be called ‘Nirvana,’ he scribbles next to it the words ‘Oooh eerie mystical doom.’ Karan Mahajan Read Quote
