There are Millions of Ruskin Bond fans now I know why?.....I am the latest addition.
It all started with....
Room on the roof... a start that is so Indian, the way Rusty met Somi, it took me back to my childhood days where making friends was so easy, no pretensions , no inhibitions just a care free attitude...I liked the intense friendship/concern he shared with Kishen a spoilt brat.
Most important thing for me is the way I am acquainted to Dhera I have never seen it but I felt like I have lived there with Rusty visiting the Bazaar, the clock tower ... Kapoor's banglow and yes Rusty's room .
The book just gripped me, I felt an impatient urge to buy the next book "Vagrants of the Valley" I was curious about what happens next...I could not wait. Thanks to FlipKart I ended up buying Ruskin Bond - Complete and Unbridged which had six novels.
# The Room on the Roof
# Vagrants in the Valley
# Delhi Is Not Far
# A Flight of Pigeons
# The Sensualist
# A Handful of Nuts
let us say I went on a rampage I guess that is the effect of the first book.Since then I felt like Ruskin held my hand and took me on a journey thro' Uttarakhand/UP which I have never seen some of them intensely emotional, of all the stories I still feel "Vagrants of the valley" is very very good the point where Rusty's late father helps him to get to England by leaving some very simple yet valuable possessions, getting to know about his father from Mr Pettigrow should have brought varied thoughts about a father of whom he had seen very little.His friendships with kishen, Hathi, lafunga, devinder and who can forget the gooonga!!.
It has been truly a fascinating , evocative and enchanting journey through the small towns, far away mountains ,forests, the ghats on river ganga even thought it was done with all the comforts of my bedroom.
I will not be able to write more on all the other novels but enjoyed reading "Flight of the Pigeons"(thrilling account of Indian Sepoy Mutiny),"Sensualist", and in the "Handfull of nuts", I am still guessing who the bollywood actor is? the character's name is Sitaram in the novel :-).
That is it for now....!
It all started with....
Room on the roof... a start that is so Indian, the way Rusty met Somi, it took me back to my childhood days where making friends was so easy, no pretensions , no inhibitions just a care free attitude...I liked the intense friendship/concern he shared with Kishen a spoilt brat.
Most important thing for me is the way I am acquainted to Dhera I have never seen it but I felt like I have lived there with Rusty visiting the Bazaar, the clock tower ... Kapoor's banglow and yes Rusty's room .
The book just gripped me, I felt an impatient urge to buy the next book "Vagrants of the Valley" I was curious about what happens next...I could not wait. Thanks to FlipKart I ended up buying Ruskin Bond - Complete and Unbridged which had six novels.
# The Room on the Roof
# Vagrants in the Valley
# Delhi Is Not Far
# A Flight of Pigeons
# The Sensualist
# A Handful of Nuts
let us say I went on a rampage I guess that is the effect of the first book.Since then I felt like Ruskin held my hand and took me on a journey thro' Uttarakhand/UP which I have never seen some of them intensely emotional, of all the stories I still feel "Vagrants of the valley" is very very good the point where Rusty's late father helps him to get to England by leaving some very simple yet valuable possessions, getting to know about his father from Mr Pettigrow should have brought varied thoughts about a father of whom he had seen very little.His friendships with kishen, Hathi, lafunga, devinder and who can forget the gooonga!!.
It has been truly a fascinating , evocative and enchanting journey through the small towns, far away mountains ,forests, the ghats on river ganga even thought it was done with all the comforts of my bedroom.
I will not be able to write more on all the other novels but enjoyed reading "Flight of the Pigeons"(thrilling account of Indian Sepoy Mutiny),"Sensualist", and in the "Handfull of nuts", I am still guessing who the bollywood actor is? the character's name is Sitaram in the novel :-).
That is it for now....!
