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Lambe arse se Ruskin Bond ki pustakon ka lokpriya paatr Rusty, apne kaarnaamon se paathakon ka mann lubhata, gudgudata aur hasaata aa raha hai. Rusty ne paathakon ke mann mein apna ek vivesh sthaan bana liya hai aur uske kisse-kahaniyon se paathak na thakta hai, na ubta hai....

रस्किन बाॅन्ड ने एक बार कहा था कि वे भूत-प्रेत में विश्वास नहीं करते लेकिन उनको हर समय, हर जगह भूत नज़र आते -जंगल में, सिनेमा के बाहर भीड़ में और बार में।

Rusty ki zindagi ki kahaniyon ki kadi mein yeh teesri kitaab hai. Rusty apne abhibhaavak ka ghar chodh chukka hai aur Kapoor parivaar ke saath rehne aata hai. Wahan vah unke bete ko padhaata hai aur use acchi dosti ho jaati hai.

A tale of sweet revenge. Ruskin is keen to teach his scatterbrained uncle a lesson. After all, he put him on the wrong train! Armed with gifts from his new friend, the stationmaster - yummy rasgullas and a pair of beautiful white mice - Ruskin devises the perfect payback. Peppered with endearing characters, this is one of Bond's most unforgettable tales.

Ranji's team finds an unexpected opponent - a nosy crocodile - when they play a cricket match against the village boys. Annoyed at the swarms of boys crowding the riverbank and the alarming cricket balls plopping around his place of rest, Nakoo the crocodile decides to take his revenge.

Kloud9 is an exclusive magazine for youth, encapsulating interesting and motivational content for the listeners, by the listeners. The aim is to develop their creative talents and showcase them too. Kloud9 organises an All-India Short Story Contest in two categories every year - Junior (classes VII to IX) and Senior (classes X to XII, also referred to as first year graduation). Reaching for Kloud9 comprises award-winning stories from Junior and Senior categories, 2015-17.

Through this book, Ruskin Bond helps listeners appreciate the small things in life. Not only does he know how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself. Bond himself weaves in and out of the this eclectic narrative that involves an old lady who climbs trees, clock towers, a cassowary bird, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, djinns, and ghosts.

Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages and towns, they lead lives that are touched by natural beauty as well as suffering - the loss of a loved parent, unfulfilled dreams, natural calamities, ghostly visitations, a respected teacher turned crooked, strangers who make a nuisance of themselves - which only reinforces their abiding faith in God, family, and neighbour.

The making of a writer Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his formative years,' till the age of 21. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relationship between his parents.

"A Handful of Nuts" is a gloriously funny and unexpectedly tender story of being young and adventurous in small town India. The central character would like to establish himself as a writer, but he is constantly diverted from his task by assorted escapades, romances, friends, and other distractions. "The Sensualist" is altogether more somber but deals with a similar theme - the trials and tribulations of a young man are coming of age. Gripping, erotic, even brutal, it explores the demons that its protagonist must grapple with before he is able to come to terms with himself.

Panthers Moon is a collection of some of Ruskin Bond's most delightful tales, tales of human encounters with birds and animals. These tales are unique in nature and vary significantly, from a tale of a dreaded man-eating leopard who terrorized a nearby village to a tale of a unique bond between a cheetah and a boy. These fascinating stories by one of India's most popular story writers, Ruskin Bond, are sure to enchant listeners of all ages.

Semi-autobiographical in nature, these 14 stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him. In other stories we revisit Bond's beloved Garhwal hills and the small towns and villages that he has returned to time and again in his fiction.

For more than four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems, and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in life and in art. This collection of essays and episodes from his journals is, in his own words, "a celebration of my survival as a freelance".

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the country's best storytellers.

In this brilliantly listenable autobiography, one of India’s greatest writers shows us the roots of everything he has written. He begins with a dream and a gentle haunting before taking us to an idyllic childhood in Jamnagar by the Arabian Sea and New Delhi in the early 1940s - where he found material for his first short story. A search for companionship and security, undercut by a fierce independence and a tendency for risk-taking, would inform every choice he made for the rest of his life.

It was a small island set in the middle of the big river, yet large enough for Sita and her grandparents to live there, together with their three goats, their hens, their vegetable patch, and the peepul tree.

Sometimes a journey can be of discovery. And in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people's journeys taken many, many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by oak trees and colonial buildings in 'The Kipling Road'. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey to Ladakh in 'Journey to the Forbidden City', while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in 'A Woman Among Cannibals'.

Stories Short and Sweet by Ruskin Bond is a collection of his choicest short stories, capturing the myriad facets of life in the hills. Humour, nostalgia, love, friendship, trust and betrayal - Bond captures every mood that makes our life worth remembering.

Ruskin Bond not only brings to life a town in northern India capturing the scenery, the people, the atmosphere - but also shows that children are the same the world over. Included are such classics as 'Ranji's Wonderful Bat', 'The Boy Who Broke the Bank' and 'Koki's Song'.

So here I am, delving into the past like Monsieur Poirot, not to solve a mystery but to try to understand some of the events that have helped define the sort of person I have become. Some of it, naturally, is in the genes; but much of it is in the environment, in the circumstances in which we grow up, in the people who come into our lives, even in the air we breathe. Had I grown up in London or Timbuktu, I would have been a different sort of person, I'm sure. My parents (and those before them) made me. But India made me, too.