” I had a thick accent, and people didn’t understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy, sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn’t try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, ‘He’s racist! “
” I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes. “
” I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a ‘Tier 2’ city may view a ‘Tier 1’ city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns. “
” 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. “
All 4 Karan Mahajan Quotes about People in picture


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