Walking to the office this morning, I saw four dupatta-covered heads bobbing above the traffic as they negotiated the road to cross to my side. Read more

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Filed under Life, india · Tagged Bombay, chawl, clothes, Delhi, Expletive Deleted, globalisation, hindustan times, kushalrani gulab, lifestyle, news, NGO, pyjamas, salwar suits, teens, western clothes
Years ago, I lost my copy of Wodehouse on Wodehouse, a collection of three semi-autobiographical books on and by PG Wodehouse who is the only god I worship. Read more

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Filed under books · Tagged Calcutta Book Fair, Children's Digests, comfort books, great books, hindustan times, kushalrani gulab, magic books, news, PG Wodehouse, Wodehouse on Wodehouse
In the last couple of months, I hadn’t read anything I particularly wanted to talk about. What I read wasn’t bad, but the books didn’t make me want to text people to say, ‘I have a great book for you’ or to write about in this blog. Read more

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Filed under books · Tagged 1857: The Real Story of the Great Uprising, A History of Reading, Apradhini - Women Without Men, C Rajagopalachari, Diddi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, hindustan times, Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart, Konkani theatrical troupe, kushalrani gulab, Majha Pravas, Malavika Karlekar, news, Remembered Childhood, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar
(Still pretty much under the influence of A History of Reading)
There’s a sort of ritual to the way I go book shopping when I go to Fact & Fiction. Read more

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Filed under books · Tagged A History of Reading, book shopping, Delhi, Eastern Europe, Expletive Deleted, Frank Smythe, George Orwell, Kushal Rani Gulab, Raymond Chandler, Robin Shelton, The Incomplete Angler, The New Yorker, The Paris Review