Inside The Complex: Family, Power, and India in Turmoil

About this episode

Milan interviews novelist Karan Mahajan about his new book, The Complex, at a live event in Washington, DC.

On this week’s show, Milan sits down with the novelist Karan Mahajan, author of a much-anticipated new novel, The Complex. Karan and Milan discussed the book at our first ever live Grand Tamasha event at Carnegie headquarters in Washington, DC on March 16. Karan is an associate professor in Literary Arts at Brown University and the author of the books Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs.

People in this episode

Host: Milan

Guest: Karan Mahajan

Topics covered

• Family
• Power
• India
• Literature

Keywords

• novel
• live event
• Carnegie
• Brown University

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Complex, Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs

Books & works: Inside The Complex: Family, Power, and India in Turmoil, The Complex, Family Planning

Places: Washington, DC

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