Kuhu Learns to Deal with Life
Book Review Title: Kuhu Learns to Deal with Life Author: Sonia Dogra Publisher: Bare Bones Publishing LLP, New Delhi (2025) Pages: 106 Childhood is often romanticised as carefree, but it is in childhood that we first encounter disappointment, fear, uncertainty, and perhaps loss too. Sonia Dogra’s Kuhu Learns to Deal with Life explores how a seven-year-old girl learns to process some of these realities. This little work does not rely on dramatic twists or extraordinary crises. Instead, the author entrusts her narrative to the quiet rhythms of a child’s everyday life, both at home and school. It is precisely this ordinariness that makes the novella extraordinary. Writing about the mundane activities and emotions of a child and getting readers hooked to it is never an easy task. In fact, that requires something of a genius. In the small negotiations of daily living, Dogra discovers the emotional epic of childhood. It may be a disappointment like havi...
