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By Ruskin Bond

The best of a lifetime of stories from a short story writer of rare distinction. Ruskin Bond's stories are predominantly set in the beautiful hill country of Garhwal where he has made his home for the last twenty-five years. Some of these stories present people who, consciously or otherwise, need each other: people in love or in need of love, the awkward adolescent and the timid lover.

Some are gently satirical studies about village and small-town braggarts and petty officials. Several others mourn the gradual erosion of the beauty of the hills (and the gentle people who live in them) with the coming of the steel and dust and worries of modern civilization.

All the stories are rewarding for their compassionate portrayal of love, loss, accomplishment, pain and struggle.

Arun
asked
Aunt Mariam
bangles
bazaar
bed
began
birds
Bisnu
boat
boy
climbed
Colonel Fanshawe
dark
Deep Chand
Dehra
Delhi
Deoli
Dhuki
Dinesh
dogs
door
eyes
face
father
feet
felt
flowers
forest
friends
garden
gave
girl
gone
Grandfather
Grandmother
grass
hair
hand
head
hills
hookah
Hukam Singh
India
jackfruit
Kabbadi
Kalam Singh
Keemat
Kemptee
kite
knew
langoors
leave
Leela
lived
looked
Madhu
mangoes
marry
Mehmood
Miss
monsoon
morning
mother
moved
Mumta
Mussoorie
never
night
panther
path
peepul
peepul tree
perhaps
Phambiri
Pipalnagar
Pitamber
platform
Puja
rain
Rakesh
Rani
remember
river
road
rock
rupees
Ruskin Bond
sat
saw
Shahganj
Sher Dil
Sheroo
shouting
sit
Sita
sleep
smile
soon
station
stood
stopped
stories
stream
sun
Sunil
Suraj
Sushila
tell
told
tonga
took
train
Vijay
village
wait
walked
wall
window
woman
wondered
Yes
young