Synopsis For decades now, Ruskin Bond has been charming us with his captivating stories about life in the
hills. For this collection, India’s favourite storyteller has rummaged through his archives and fished
out a compilation of some of the pithiest short stories written on the Indian wildlife.
From tigers, elephants, mongooses and leopards to jackals, panthers, snakes and cats—Bond covers
them all, humble and mighty, in this collection. Bringing together the finest writing by authors
such as Rudyard Kipling, C.A. Kincaid, John Eyton, Hugh Allen, among others, this collection
will enchant the Bond aficionado and initiate alike.
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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.
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