New Delhi, April 20 -- In Karan Mahajan's acclaimed new novel, The Complex, readers are introduced to the fictional Chopra family as they navigate the personal and political turmoil of India in the late 1970s. As each member of the family struggles to forge an identity in the shadow of patriarch SP Chopra's legacy, buried tensions surface and rival visions of power, belonging, and ambition collide. Mahajan discussed his new book on a recent episode of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced by the Hindustan Times and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is an associate professor in Literary Arts at Brown University and the author of two earlier books, Family Planning and The Association of Sma...