“bond ruskin”

The perils and pleasures that attend growing up... In ‘A Handful of Nuts’, the first of the novellas in this book, the reader is treated to vintage Bond—a gloriously funny and unexpectedly tender story of being young and adventurous in small town India. The central character would like to esta... More

A compilation of love stories and poems from the classical literature and folklore of India Set in regions of great natural beauty where Kamadeva, the god of love, picks his victims with consummate ease, these stories and lyrics celebrate the myriad aspects of love. In addition to relatively well-kn... More

Autobiographical sketches and stories from India’s best-loved writer in English. For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in life and in art. This collection of essays and episodes from his journals... More

‘Our very own resident Wordsworth in prose’ —India Today‘The habit of keeping a diary has led me into trouble more than once,’ writes Ruskin Bond in the introduction to this journal of a year in his hometown of Landour, Mussoorie. Bond is an inveterate diarist, but over the years he finds ... More

A delectable offering from a writer who not only knows how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself Playful tigers, ‘ghosts’, elephants, crows and old favourites like Uncle Ken, Miss Bun, the author’s slightly eccentric grandfather and Bond himself weave in and o... More

‘It’s the simple things in life that keep us from going crazy,’ Ruskin Bond writes in this enchanting collection of essays, a celebration of the uncomplicated pleasures of a life well-lived.... More

Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part of town, in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the ... More

Rusty returns to his beloved hills, never to leave againRusty Comes Home is the fifth and final volume in Puffin's complete collection of Ruskin Bond's ever-popular Rusty stories. A lonely and sensitive boy who lost his father early, Rusty spent his childhood in boarding schools and with rel... More

Here are exciting tales of hair-breadth escapes and thrilling encounters in the wild - stories of man's relationships with other living creatures, furred or feathered, fierce or friendly. All the stories were written out of the writers' own experiences. From thrilling encounters with man-eating tige... More

13 hair-raisingstories to make your fresh creep! From phantom rickshaws to faceless horrors,terror stalk the streets, the circus arena, the waxworks, the haunted manor,the Simla Mall.....The Rupa Book Of Scary Stories contains literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, AlgernonBlackwood and others, bro... More