Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast

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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Karan Mahajan, The Granta Podcast is an episode from Granta by Granta Magazine.

This episode is 49:05 long.

This episode was published on Dec 19, 2025.

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