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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... peepul tree , which was said to be haunted . I had never met the ghost , and did not really believe in him , but his name , I was told , was Bippin , and long ago he had been hanged from the peepul tree by a gang of dacoits . Since then ...
... peepul tree , which was said to be haunted . I had never met the ghost , and did not really believe in him , but his name , I was told , was Bippin , and long ago he had been hanged from the peepul tree by a gang of dacoits . Since then ...
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... peepul tree and carry off a grasshopper . He told me that both the bluejay and the god Shiva were called Nilkanth . Shiva had a blue throat , like the bird , because out of compassion for the human race he had swallowed a deadly poison ...
... peepul tree and carry off a grasshopper . He told me that both the bluejay and the god Shiva were called Nilkanth . Shiva had a blue throat , like the bird , because out of compassion for the human race he had swallowed a deadly poison ...
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... peepul tree . When the Munjia gets annoyed , it rushes out from the tree and upsets bullock - carts , meanas and even horse - driven carriages . Should anyone be passing beneath a lonely peepul tree at night , advised Qamran , one ...
... peepul tree . When the Munjia gets annoyed , it rushes out from the tree and upsets bullock - carts , meanas and even horse - driven carriages . Should anyone be passing beneath a lonely peepul tree at night , advised Qamran , one ...
Contents
The BentDouble Beggar | 17 |
Untouchable | 24 |
Coming Home to Dehra | 39 |
Copyright | |
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