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…

- Karan Mahajan

There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will be huge in people's consc…

- Karan Mahajan

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…

- Karan Mahajan

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…

- Karan Mahajan

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…

- Karan Mahajan

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the a…

- Karan Mahajan

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…

- Karan Mahajan

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 …

- Karan Mahajan

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…

- Karan Mahajan