The main character in Karan Mahajan’s novel, Family Planning, is a man who is only attracted to his wife when she is pregnant. “He liked the smooth, alien bulge of her stomach or the tripled heartbeat when they made love, silently, shifting over each other.” The down side, for this family at least, living as they do in New Delhi, is that the byproduct of pregnancy-for-arousal is an enormous family; not to mention a complicated web of lies.