Top
Home » Kushalrani Gulab
Kushalrani Gulab
About the AuthorKushalrani Gulab
    Book Review | An English garden opens window to healingLifestyle
    Book Review | An English garden opens window to healing

    Coincidentally, just as I finished The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams, I came across an old social media post I had...

    13 Aug 2023 12:32 AM IST

    Book Review | A literary thriller parsing corruption and classLifestyle
    Book Review | A literary thriller parsing corruption and class

    The opening of Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice is written as dispassionately as a news report. It tells the...

    30 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Book review | Slow & lovely dive into a middle class Indian girls young angstLifestyle
    Book review | Slow & lovely dive into a middle class Indian girl's...

    For days after I finished reading Fear and Lovely by Anjana Appachana, I wondered how I would write this review. The...

    2 July 2023 6:59 PM IST

    Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker bluesOpinion
    Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker blues

    About six years ago, I read a book that I thought was brilliant — till the last 50 odd pages. The end was so...

    11 Jun 2023 12:13 AM IST

    Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarityLifestyle
    Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

    If I'd journalled my feelings about Sonora Jha's novel, The Laughter, as I read it, I might perhaps have not...

    23 April 2023 12:48 AM IST

    Cover photo of Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right by Kalpish RatnaLifestyle
    Book Review | Listen to your body, not your brain, when it comes to...

    Just a few chapters into Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right by Kalpish Ratna, I was overcome with rage. My...

    26 March 2023 12:13 AM IST

    Its a series of essays about Sara Rais 1960s. (Photo By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Premchand’s grandchild curates her memories

    Here’s a confession. I’d never heard of Sara Rai until I saw a book with her name on it a couple of weeks...

    4 March 2023 10:47 PM IST

    Once again, you can imagine what happens next. No matter how much time has passed, never mind Mahis boyfriend and Krishs girlfriend, Krish and Mahi know that they have never not loved each other. By ArrangementLifestyle
    Book Review | Desi Lesbian romance hopes to make a point

    The romance novel about star-crossed lovers Krish and Mahi has not one, not two, but three happy endings

    9 Jan 2023 9:49 AM IST

    The cover page of The Anglo-IndiansLifestyle
    Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

    The book covers much more than the things I’ve described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any...

    3 Dec 2022 7:14 PM IST

    Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Who’s afraid of growing old?

    The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

    20 Nov 2022 1:02 AM IST

    Patil is an idealist, a person who quit a well-paying information technology job to help save the world but her ideas of the things that constitute field research and conservation are similar to the ideas of bureaucrats and men with moustaches only in the most superficial way. DC ImageLifestyle
    Book Review | Laugh and also ponder what patriarchy might do next

    The book is a delightful account by a beleaguered researcher to investigate impact of government's agro-forestry policy...

    9 May 2021 9:48 AM IST

    Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.Lifestyle
    Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu's best classic short...

    In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a...

    14 March 2021 2:15 AM IST

    X