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Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan
Indian Novelist
Born: Apr 24, 1984
After Been City Me People You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively. Karan Mahajan
Love Me Space Become Lost Thinking India About Somehow Something Fact Troubled Write Lost Love Any Reason Keep Why
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them. Karan Mahajan
Thoughts Book Must Put Read Want Anyone Which Mean Them
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
Funny Words Will Band Nirvana Mystical Writer Knack He His Friend Doom Next Profundity
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.' Karan Mahajan
Music Great Intelligence Worth Lyrics Say Pleasure Plenty Great Literature Only Songs Qualify Massive Singers Rock Real Verses Get Real Pleasure Behind Literature Even Novelists Chorus Two
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white. Karan Mahajan
World Few White Brooklyn Years Texas Austin Where Lived Downtown Last Last Few Years
New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after. Karan Mahajan
Move On Sense City New Days Because York Move Moved Moved On New York New York City After Moments Need
To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come. Karan Mahajan
World Live See New Come York New York
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever. Karan Mahajan
Failure Possible About Deny Forever Thing
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write. Karan Mahajan
Myself Book First Encouragement Everyone Bits Bits And Pieces Write Had Pieces Force Readily Worked Shown
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 Terry McDermott. Karan Mahajan
Best Terrorism Soldiers Ways Though Some About Lawrence Wright Perfect Tower Looming Terry Novel
Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction. Karan Mahajan
Time People Every Every Time Neither Would Someone Blast Weirdly Well Non-Fiction Answered Been Nor Fiction Happens Anywhere Ask Why
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous! Karan Mahajan
Good Culture People Good Job Job Thought Thinking Too Drawing Out Given Marvellous Writers Alter Contention Terrorists Error Replaced Then Who Mao Novels
Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too. Karan Mahajan
God Goals Too Supposed Beyond Terrorists Authors
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
Angry Class People Think About More Directly Terrorists Were Affected Been Surprisingly Lot Middle Middle Class Them Who Many Things
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
Great Failure History You Thrive Kind About Attacks Study Most Talk Make Talking Because Terrorist Trying Fiction Which Shorthand Successful Event Mumbai Actually Start
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that. Karan Mahajan
Love People Evil Bad Things Bad Stay About Fact Talking Banality Want Ordinary Ordinary People Away Actually Things
Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels. Karan Mahajan
Character City Delhi Argue Apparently Novels
The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.' Karan Mahajan
Music Cake Pressure Has-Been John Since Been Up Chief Served Brilliance
After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.' Karan Mahajan
Strength First Single Band Defined Berry Record Seems New Like Accelerate Looks Reveal Rock Rock And Roll Continue Discoverer Up Roll Same After Again Album Last Albums Muscular
'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. Karan Mahajan
Failure Women Men Harsh Critique Remarkable Dawn Part Attention Also Stop Sensitive Lives Violence Careful
As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality. Karan Mahajan
Family You Past Own Marriages Find About Horror Only Brutality Look Arranged Stories Your
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women. Karan Mahajan
Freedom Rights Culture Women Writing Value Men Power Alike Muslims Over Sought Hindus Who Lives
If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism. Karan Mahajan
Racism Systemic Because Exists America Asian
Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens. Karan Mahajan
Other Still Regarded Many
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.' Karan Mahajan
Immigration Law Country Admission Nadir Idea Implementation Toward Most Reached Policies Sought Denied American Establishment Banned Asia Asians Barred Homogeneity Zone Preserve
I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes. Karan Mahajan
Reality People Met Young Sync Striving Out Cities Enterprising Mental Like Towns Landscape Many Number
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