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Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs. In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists. He has recently completed his third novel, The Complex.

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Fiction | Issue 166 padlock
Fiction | Issue 166 padlock

The Attaché’s Wife

Karan Mahajan

“I’m from here. I grew up here. In fact, that’s why the government invited me back for this work.”

Short fiction by Karan Mahajan.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 166
Essays & Memoir | Issue 166

Among the Citizen Soldiers

Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan visits Lexington, Virginia – a centre of the Confederary – in the wake of the far-right rally in Charlottesville.

In Conversation | Issue 139
In Conversation | Issue 139

Karan Mahajan | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Karan Mahajan

‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

The Anthology

Karan Mahajan

‘Long before terrorism became fashionable in the West and commonplace in the East, there was a bombing at the Sovereign Center in Delhi.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139

Karan Mahajan | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Karan Mahajan

‘Too often, a kind of travel writing – especially the novel set abroad in an exotic locale – feels like a way of allegorizing and escaping problems at home.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139

Wonder Why

Karan Mahajan

‘‘I personally could not tell what exhibits were fake and which were real,’ he wrote. ‘Why would the curators want to create this confusion and mock our very senses?’’

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