Author: Ruskin Bond
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): A.S. Ilangovan
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2001
Language: Tamil
Pages: 162
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812600553X
Description
Fourteen engaging stories from one of India’s master story-tellers.
Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author’s childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author’s family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him. In other stories we revisit Bond’s beloved Garhwal hills and the small towns and villages that he has returned to time and again in his fiction.
Together with his well-known novella, A Flight of Pigeons (which was made into the film Junoon), which also appears in this collection, these stories once again bring Ruskin Bond’s India vividly to life.
Contents
1. Maplewood: An Introduction
2. Escape from Java
3. The Bent-Double Beggar
4. Untouchable
5. All Creatures Great and Small
6.Coming Home to Dehra
7. What’s Your Dream?
8. The Last Tonga Ride
9. Calypso Christmas
10. The Last Time I Saw Delhi
11. The Good Old Days
12. Binya Passes By
13. As Time Goes By
14. From Small Beginnings
15. Death of the Trees
16. A Flight of Pigeons