Background
Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, India.
Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, India.
He studied English and Economics at Stanford University.
He currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He has contributed writing to The Believer, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, Granta,The New York Sun,The New Yorker, and The Utopian. Stories
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In 2003, Stanford University forced Mahajan and several other students to move out of their university-owned cottages so that they could be reserved for use as quarantine facilities for students with symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. In 2004, Mahajan and two roommates opened a museum dedicated to Matthias K. Rath in their dormitory room at Stanford University.