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Category: Karan Mahajan

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.’

Music, Great, Literature

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.

Reading, You, Her

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.

Life, Work, People

‘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.

Women, Men, Violence

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

Forever, Possible, Deny

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.

History, Great, Successful

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

silence, small-man

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

bombs, earth, past, present, tunnels

No action is safe from meaning.

life, meaning, philosophy

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

failed-men, men

The roots of shame run deep.

politics, religion, values-and-principles, wealth-dynamics