Books by Karan Mahajan

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2016A New York Times Notable Book of 2016On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Young bomb maker Shockie, striving for the future independence of his Kashmiri homeland, is also in Delhi that day, and afterwards will be inextricably linked to the blast.

Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands: thirteen children and another on the way. This uproarious debut follows father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis in a moving - and fast-moving - comic portrait of modern family life.