Our Trees Still Grow in DehraFourteen 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. |
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... Shimla . His first novel , The Room on the Roof , written when he was seventeen , received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. In the course of a writing career spanning thirty - five years , he has written over a hundred ...
... Shimla . His first novel , The Room on the Roof , written when he was seventeen , received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. In the course of a writing career spanning thirty - five years , he has written over a hundred ...
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... Shimla , where I was incarcerated in a preparatory school for boys . This is not the story of my life at boarding school . It might easily have been a public school in England ; it did in fact pride itself on being the ' Eton of the ...
... Shimla , where I was incarcerated in a preparatory school for boys . This is not the story of my life at boarding school . It might easily have been a public school in England ; it did in fact pride itself on being the ' Eton of the ...
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... Shimla , began its long march to Delhi . But meanwhile , the conflict had spread to other cities . And on the 30th of May there was much excitement in the magistrate's office at Shahjahanpur , some 250 miles east of Delhi . A bungalow ...
... Shimla , began its long march to Delhi . But meanwhile , the conflict had spread to other cities . And on the 30th of May there was much excitement in the magistrate's office at Shahjahanpur , some 250 miles east of Delhi . A bungalow ...
Contents
The BentDouble Beggar | 17 |
Untouchable | 24 |
Coming Home to Dehra | 39 |
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