Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast

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In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs and the forthcoming The Complex. Mahajan’s essay ‘The Killing of a Canadian Sikh’, on an extrajudicial killing in Surrey, Canada, appeared in Granta 173: India.We discuss his forthcoming novel, the Khalistani separatist movement, Salman Rushdie’s influence and the relationship between India and the US.Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. He is the author of The Boys (2025).Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.

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In this episode of the Granta Podcast we speak to Karan Mahajan, author of Family Planning, The Association of Small Bombs and the forthcoming The Complex. Mahajan’s essay ‘The Killing of a Canadian Sikh’, on an extrajudicial killing in Surrey, Canada, appeared in Granta 173: India. We discuss his forthcoming novel, the Khalistani separatist movement, Salman Rushdie’s influence and the relationship between India and the US. Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the...

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