Tag Archives: Karan Mahajan

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

Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example. Karan Mahajan

By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it – and yet: what did I have to […]

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

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

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful. Karan Mahajan

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Karan Mahajan

We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath. Karan Mahajan

To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come. 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. Karan Mahajan