Family Planning

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This hugely entertaining modern Indian morality tale is fast-paced and bittersweet in the tradition of Slumdog Millionaire. Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands- thirteen children and another on the way. Lost among his sprawling, noisy brood he reaches out to Arjun, his eldest, and seemingly wisest, son. But Arjun has his own problems- how to tell the girl on the school bus that he's crazy about her 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.

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Sharp, funny and stylishly assured. Hugely enjoyable * Daily Mail *
The funniest book of the year * Suketu Mehta *
Full of loveable eccentrics and sly social commentary -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
'Mature and impressive ... a poignant comedy' * Observer *
Readers of this comedy of manners are in for a treat...Mahajan, with supreme self-assurance, fashions a subtle, cutting take on modern India * Guardian *

Author Bio

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi. A graduate of Stanford University, he now lives in Houston, Texas.