Karan Mahajan

Author Suketu Mehta has high praise for Family Planning in The Daily Beast and wrote: “I recommend Karan Mahajan’s debut novel Family Planning. It’s the truest portrait of modern New Delhi I’ve read, and the funniest book of the year, about a government minister with 13 children. The author is only 24.”

In this three-part video interview, Aseem talks with Karan Mahajan about his debut novel Family Planning. The 24-year-old author discusses the novel’s inspiration, the writing process and how he avoided creating an exotic India.

The video can be viewed in High Definition. First hit the play button in the center of the screen, then click the triangle in the bottom right corner of the screen. You will see the “HQ” option. Click that to play the video in “High Quality”.

Part I: “Humor gets sharpened when one is put in an alien situation.”

Part II: No sari or man on a camel on the cover.



Part III: “I feel a deep affinity with Jewish American writers.”

Prefer to download the audio instead? Click here.

Related Book Reviews:

San Francisco Chronicle: Family Planning

Washington Post: Young and Restless

Interview on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show:

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This entry was posted on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 9:45 am and is filed under Writers and tagged with , , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to “Karan Mahajan”

  1. Dev Benegal says:
    January 27, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Aseem:
    What a wonderful site. Love the design though not the Google ads (!) and of course your presence.
    You’ve redefined the web for me!!!
    Way to Go!

  2. Mallika Dutt says:
    January 27, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Hey Aseem – finally! congratulations and look forward to DAILY posts too. would love to see a third tab that links to all your articles as well – with a tag cloud.

    MOOOST exciting.

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