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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When I took my produce to the market, five miles away, I harnessed the bullocks
and drove down the dusty village road, sometimes returning home late at night. '
Every night I passed a peepul tree, which was said to be haunted. I had never ...
"I am coming home with you." 'And I drove on to the village with Bippin sitting
beside me. ' "I have so arranged it," he said, "that no one will be able to see me.
And another thing. I must sleep beside you every night, and no one must know of
it.
He'd been to the recruiting centre at Roorkee, hoping to get into the Army; but
they found a deformity in his right foot, the result of a bone broken when a
landslip carried him away one dark monsoon night; he was lucky, he said, that it
was only ...
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our trees still grows in dehra is a story written by ruskin bond , wherein it is said that ruskin with his father lived in java but they had to escape from there because dutch and the java were going to have a war , so to be on a safe side they decided to go back to india . Where ruskin was sent to boarding school. but due to his father's illness of some time he had to live with a family . After his fathers death he had to live with his grandparents for some time. The time passed and his grandfather also passed away. so he and his grandmother went to usa for a short time. they came back to india ater some years . then ruskin started writting books and lived in a small house near a mountain. the days passed and ruskin wrote his books, but one day ruskin found a girl named bansi, everyday came somewhere near ruskin's house to pluk berries and used to share them with ruskin, slowly , they both started liking each other. but then bansi was sent to her mother very far from ruskin.
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The BentDouble Beggar | 17 |
Untouchable | 24 |
Coming Home to Dehra | 39 |
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| Title | Our trees still grow in Dehra Penguin original |
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0140169024, 9780140169027 |
| Length | 164 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / India & South Asia India Short stories, Indic (English) |
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