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Roads to Mussoorie
by Ruskin Bond
Description:
Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writerÂ’s surroundings and the role they have played in his work and life. With an endearing affection and nostalgia for his home of over forty years, Ruskin bond describes his many journeys to, from and around Mussoorie, and then delves into the daily scandals surrounding his life and friends in the (not so) sleepy hill town. The pieces in this collection are characterized by an incorrigible sense of humour and an eye for ordinary and most often unnoticed details that are so essential to the geographic, social and cultural fabric of a place
About The Author
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children’s authors and a top novelist.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra”, by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children’s literature.
He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Roads to Mussoorie is soft, simple beautifully narrated stories/experiences of Ruskin Bond of and around Mussoori.
Very pleasant read.
You can even visualize streets bazars and hilly areas, journeys of mussoorie by this book.
Explains old era, lifestyles before independence in India.
Ruskin Bond has its own style calm n neat.
Book is Refresher in your hectic life.