Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, 'Untouchable', at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classic 'A Face in the Dark', 'The Kitemaker', 'The Tunnel', 'The Room of Many Colours', 'Dust on the Mountain' and 'Time Stops at Shamli'. Featur...
Worth for the range it covers. Apart from the much anthologized Kingling tales (Mark of the Beast et al), it contains some pleasant surprises. Especially enjoyed the ones by Satyajit Ray (Fritz), a tale by Ruskin Bond, and some by obscure writers who used the British India as a setting, its sahib...
Rusty hurriedly returned the smile. ‘Where have you been, dear?’ asked his garrulous neighbour. ‘I was expecting you for lunch. You’ve never been away so long, I’ve finished all my work now, you know . . . Was it a nice walk? I know you’re thirsty, come in and have a nice cool lemonade, there’s n...
Of course the two rivers meet at Deoprayag and then both are Ganga. But there are some who assert that geographically the Alaknanda is the true Ganga, while others say that tradition should be the criterion, and traditionally the Bhagirathi is the Ganga. I put the question to my friend Dr Sudhaka...
Heat waves shimmered along the railway embankment where it cut a path through the tall evergreen trees. The railway lines were two straight black serpents disappearing into the tunnel in the hillside.Ranji stood near the cutting, waiting for the midday train. It wasn’t a station and he wasn’t cat...