The first full-length critical study of Rajiv Khandelwal's poetry, written by his mentor Dr Som P. Ranchan, examining the poet's life narrative, aesthetic development, treatment of love, satirical voice, poetic process, and creative philosophy through six substantial chapters, including a closing conversation between poet and critic.

Dr Bhupinder Parihar's eight-chapter study examines Khandelwal's poetry through the intersecting lenses of identity, culture, linguistic craft, and the Indian aesthetic tradition, with dedicated chapters on 'Love is a Lot of Work' as a defining text and a concluding engagement with the Rasa theory of literary appreciation.

A focused critical study engaging with Khandelwal's amorous imagination across four of his collections, reading love as the organising aesthetic energy of his work from his early poems through to 'A Time to Forget'.

An edited multi-contributor volume gathering seventeen critical essays and reviews on Khandelwal's poetry by academics and scholars from across India and beyond, with particular attention to 'Conch Shells and Cowries' and 'Love is a Lot of Work'.

A ten-chapter critical study tracing the emotional and thematic range of Khandelwal's poetry across dimensions of love, desire, identity, social observation, and existential reflection, moving from an opening conceptual framework through to a closing synthesis.

A second multi-contributor critical volume gathering sixteen essays by scholars, poets, and critics from India and internationally, concentrating substantially on 'Dwelling with Denial' and 'Poem in the Poet's Palm' alongside broader appreciations of the poet's range and craft

A nineteen-chapter critical volume focusing specifically on Khandelwal's poetic process and creative method, with essays exploring imagination, subconscious creativity, the role of memory and nostalgia, language and imagery, publication experience, and the poet's place in the broader literary landscape.

A six-chapter monograph examining the emotional and erotic dimensions of Khandelwal's verse through thematic categories of wounded feeling, passion, unrequited longing, ecstasy, and shadowed experience, closing with an interview with the poet.

The most recent and most extended critical study of Khandelwal's poetry, Dr Neelanjana Pathak's full-length academic monograph works through seven analytical chapters and a conclusion across 291 pages, situating the poet within the wider traditions of Indian English literature and offering sustained close readings of his language, imagery, and thematic vision.