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As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
Karan Mahajan
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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Asian-Americans are still regarded as 'other' by many of their fellow-citizens.
Karan Mahajan