Ruskin Bond
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| Title | : | The Best of Ruskin Bond |
| Author | : | Ruskin Bond |
| Book Format | : | paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2016 by Penguin (first published October 14th 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. India |
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I wanted to write this review for a long time but was holding back as my writing skills are not good enough to do justice to a writer of the stature of Ruskin Bond. No matter how many more great books that I read or things that I learn, Ruskin can never be replaced. Ruskin will always have a special place in my heart and let me explain why...Like any typical North Indian kid, I used to look forward to my summer holidays away form the school. I, along with my cousins, would rush to complete our summer holiday homework, which our schools would bombard us with as they were against the idea of kids being kids and enjoying their holidays. Having finished all the projects in the first few days of the vacations itself( or so we told our parents.. wink wink), we would be invited to spend the rest of our holidays at my Nani's place in a small town in North India. This is where I have the fondest memories of my childhood.. running bare feat around the house, eating kalla khatta and choco-bar from the local hawker, nintendo video games, bathing naked under the cold lawn hose water in the evenings, Climbing and eating mulberries from the backyard tree, playing cricket and pithoo with my cousins and of course reading Ruskin Bond's stories before going to bed.
Ruskin would take me to the magical world of the mountains, forests, greenery, birds, ferocious tigers and leopards and other local legends. I loved all his short stories, whether they be fiction or the ones describing his own childhood. He might just be talking about a mundane morning walk in the hills but his writing makes me hear the birds, smell the tress and picture the scenes so vividly in my head its as if I'm there myself. It was Ruskin who made me fall in love with the Mountains and the Nature. A love that has only grown with time and I now fully practise as an adult.
He had a profound effect on the mind of a growing child and shaped a part of my personality. His writing is simple and profound. Thank you Ruskin.... you contributed to who I am today and I'll be forever grateful for that.
If you love nature then you should read Ruskin's short stories.
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| Original Title: | The Best of Ruskin Bond |
| ISBN: | 0140246061 (ISBN13: 9780140246063) |
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Ruskin Bond brings the best of Mountains-Stories-Colonial hangover fused with daily life and concatenation is very heady as if you are moving in hills and going thru as if its actually happening around. Simplicity of words that touch chords with our lives is what Ruskin Bond has mastery over....drool thru the Dahradun-Mussorie regions istting in ya living rooms thru these stories !!A really soothing read for the restless mind, being to harsh on itself by chasing things all the time. This book resonates very well with the poem Leisure by W.H. Davis and the poems iconic line - What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. Cooped up during quarantine, we cannot critically think thoughts critically important to us until we start at the absolute level zero. And, this book helps us attain that mental state. Enjoy the calmness.
A good winter read. I had read many if Ruskin Bond's short stories as a child. Reading the book again brought back a lot of memories... the stories still hold all their charm, the picture of hills, trees, flowers, birds and mountains are no less vivid... it transported me to a happy place, long gone.
This book,as the name suggests, compiles some of the best works of Ruskin. The beauty of Bonds writings lie in the simplicity of thoughts and clear presentation to the readers . He mostly writes on his own days, childhood, adulthood and on his contemporary times. He has beautifully put moments in stories which sometimes seems to be a mundane routine in ones life. It is clear that a writer certainly has keen observatory skills over an average human being. Sometimes repetitions are visible but
Simplicity is a skill very few possess. Ironical as it is, it is far easier to create a story with intricacies, than it is to write one with few themes, fewer characters, but an equally engrossing effect nonetheless.The Best of Ruskin Bond, as the name suggests, is a collection of stories from various books by the author. So you have tales from Dehra, some autobiographical accounts (I suspect), poems, essays, etc. Overall, the variety is refreshing.I particularly enjoyed the macabre story
Each of the stories and novels in the book is beautiful but the tone is fairly consistent across the entire book. And I dare say repetitive. It would be worth it for somebody to try to trace Mr. Bond's life story by ordering and grouping his published stories to align with different phases of his life. The ingredients are there!I'm torn between 3 and 4 stars.
The book is a very rewarding collection of Ruskin Bond's stories of love and friendship, essays, vinegttes and a few poems. Like his all other work, this reading too evokes a comforting and the good old days' feel and brings back the memories of old acquaintances and relatives.He never ceases to capture the very 'being': the existence of life around him in the most unpretentious yet interesting manner that we cannot help but become a part of it.His language is lucid, style: conversational and
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