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

Grand Tamasha by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Apr 8, 202600:51:49News & Politics

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 headqua...

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