Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 125
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788129106995
Description
Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writer’s surroundings and the role they have played in his work and life.
With an endearing affection and nostalgia for his home of over forty years, Ruskin bond describes his many journeys to, from and around Mussoorie, and then delves into the daily scandals surrounding his life and friends in the (not so) sleepy hill town. The pieces in this collection are characterized by an incorrigible sense of humour and an eye for ordinary-and most often unnoticed-details that are so essential to the geographic, social and cultural fabric of a place.
REVIEW
With a chuckle built into every line, Ruskin Bond’s Roads to Mussoorie is both droll and wicked, thoughtful and tender. A little gem of a looking over the shoulder account of a lifetime.
-Anita Nair
Contents
INTRODUCTION: BACKWARD
Breakfast Time
On the Delhi road
Cold Beer at Chutmalpur
The Kipling Road
At the End of the Road
Sacred Shrines Along the Way
Trees by My Window
Let’s Go to the Pictures!
Some Hill-Station Ghosts
The Year of the Kissing and Other Good Times
Running for Cover
Party Time in Mussoorie
Forward!