India Explored

'India Explored' brings you a series on books for the travelling Indians. See the right-side column to go through earlier books in the series. Today's focus is on a few books written by well known writer Ruskin Bond.

• Rain in the Mountains. A compilation of short write-ups and stories by Ruskin Bond includes some beautiful narration of life from his window and his life in Mussourie.
• Indian Railways Stories. This is a compilation of stories about Indian Rawilays, a system celebrated by writers since the days of British. The compilation has stories from well known writers like Rudyard Kipling and Bill Aitken.
• Delhi is Not Far. One of the well known books by Bond, this is about a struggling writer living his dreams.
• Night Train at Deoli. This is a book with a collection of short stories. Like most of Bond's work, this too is a beautiful narration of simple yet touching scenarios. The story 'Night Train at Deoli' is a narration of a college boy's unrequited love.
• Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. This book contains memoirs of Bond, his growing up in Dehradun, his family, friends and people around him and further about love to the mountains of Garhwal.