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Rachna Chhabria
About the AuthorRachna Chhabria
Rachna Chhabria is a Bengaluru-based children�??s author and a freelance writer
    Cover page of Feral Dreams Mowgli and His MothersLifestyle
    Book REVIEW | How Mowgli grew up, grew old and loved his mothers

    The book chronicles Daniel’s journey in life, from the jungle to civilisation, from childhood till his sixties

    6 Dec 2020 9:59 AM IST

    Rachna Chhabria | Will printed word comfort and inform post-Covid?Opinion
    Rachna Chhabria | Will printed word comfort and inform post-Covid?

    Book sales in India aren’t usually very high and the lockdown further plummeted these sales

    14 Jun 2020 4:43 PM IST

    Murder mystery set in the 1,600-year-old kingdom of an able but forgotten queenLifestyle
    Murder mystery set in the 1,600-year-old kingdom of an able but...

    The Curse of Anuganga is a historical fiction that transports readers to 403 CE and that too without a time-machine.

    23 July 2019 7:08 AM IST

    The Undoing Dance by Srividya Natarajan; Juggernaut, Rs 499/-Lifestyle
    The Undoing Dance: A present haunted by the sound of ghungroos from...

    Savour it, chapter by chapter, let the taste of this delicious literary feast serving a slice of cultural history,...

    15 Jan 2019 2:15 AM IST

    Ahimsa,by Supriya Kelkar Scholastic, Rs 395Lifestyle
    India's freedom struggle told through the life of a little girl

    The story is set in the fictitious town of Navrangpur, the year is 1942 when India's freedom struggle was at its peak.

    28 Oct 2018 7:09 AM IST

    The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev HarperCollins, Rs 299Lifestyle
    Book Review: A touching story of love, longing and sacrifices in...

    Twenty-eight-year-old Ria travels to Chicago from Mumbai, for her cousin Nikhil's wedding to his girlfriend Jen.

    30 Sept 2018 3:34 AM IST

    After the Storm book, by Lakshmy Ramanathan HarperCollins, Rs 250Lifestyle
    Book Review: A racy read with lots of laugh-out-loud moments

    Meenakshi does a Meano and turns down Rakesh's proposal and lands up in Mumbai to pursue her career.

    2 Sept 2018 6:36 AM IST

    The Architecture of Loss, by Zainab Priya Dala Speaking Tiger, Rs 399Lifestyle
    The lives of two women in times of apartheid

    Most of the story is told in flashback.

    3 Jun 2018 3:02 AM IST

    Fear is the Key, by Juggi Bhasin Penguin Random House, Rs 225Lifestyle
    Fear: The lietmotif that runs through the narrative

    It is at this party that Simone disappears leaving no clue. The Gurugram police step in but their investigations prove...

    27 April 2018 1:45 AM IST

    The Wounds of the Dead by Vikram Paralkar, Fourth Estate, Rs 324Lifestyle
    Magically unreal with a touch of absurd

    Magic realism is a difficult genre to pull off but Paralkar has managed to do so with aplomb.

    29 March 2018 1:23 AM IST

    The book had every chance of falling into a dull and boring read but Paralkar, like a skilled surgeon, manages to save it from the malady of dullness by keeping it alive with suspense.Lifestyle
    Magically unreal with a touch of absurd

    Magic realism is a difficult genre to pull off but Paralkar has managed to do so with aplomb.

    25 March 2018 2:40 AM IST

    Turtles all the way down by John Green Penguin UK Rs 350Lifestyle
    Book Review 'Turtles all the way down: Close-to-life characters hold...

    A huge credit for this goes to Green as he has conceptualised the character close to real.

    17 Dec 2017 6:26 AM IST

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