It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attenti….

But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of these attacks were meant to be small.….

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 thi….

Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good ….

I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get more out of w….

In India the government is very chaotic and poorly run. They are forced into action by public pressure. When it's a larger event, there's a lot more ….

I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few seconds, but the rest of the ye….

As for the Jewish-American question, what's funny is that I grew up in India, and the Jewish-American comparison is better for second-generation Asia….

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color ….

How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you should be fearless and go about….

I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every book I read, "It fell apart at ….

I don't know what you can do if it's reported that there's been a small attack in the second- or third-largest city in country X that you have no con….

There have been many cases in which the government keeps promising compensation, but doesn't pay out. Many of the shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar were sc….

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to t….

I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but ….

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not l….

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 was true before as we….

Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The….

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to ov….

When a bomb actually goes off, there's a lot of confusion, and people often don't know a bomb has gone off. For a long time, people might think there….

The only solace can come from the state. In the Boston bombing, only a handful of people died in the end, even though a huge number were injured - an….