102 Quotes by Karan Mahajan

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    I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

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    There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

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    The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

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    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.'

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    '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.

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    As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.

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    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.

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    If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

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    Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens.

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