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Apr 8
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Inside The Complex: Family, Power, and I...

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
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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 headquarters in Washington, DC on March 16. Karan is an associate professor in Literary Arts at Brown University and the author of the books Family ... Show More
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