Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 144
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129105861
Description
The India Ruskin Bond loves does not make the headlines. But he finds it wherever he goes -in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert-and in the hearts and minds of people who have given him love and affection for the better part of a lifetime.
In this collection of prose and poems written specially for this book, Ruskin Bond looks back on his unique relationship with the country and its people, from the time he turned hi back on the West and came home, still only a boy, to take up the challenge of being a writer in a changing India.
Ruskin Bond writes straight from the heart. He is at his best when writing about all that he cares for-his adopted family, his friends, his writings, the mountains, roads, rivers, and small towns that are all a part of the India he loves.
Contents
PREFACE
Come Roaming With Me
Children of India
Boy In A Blue Pullover
Our Local Team
And Now We Are Twelve
Spell Broken
Simply Living
Garhwal Himalaya
The India I Carried with Me
Friends of My Youth
Midwinter, Deserted Hill Station
Adventures in Reading
To Light a Fire
A Song of Many Rivers
My Far Pavilions
Return To Dehra
Joyfully I Write
His Last Words
Thoughts on Approaching Seventy