A timeless selection of writings from India's best-loved author

Dreams-what are they made of? One spoon of hope, a scoop of passion and a drizzle of fantasy!It i...

Great Trees Of India

Ruskin Bond has been writing stories for children for over six decades now, delighting and enchan...

It was a small island in the middle of a big river, and just large enough for Sita and her grandp...

Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep. Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling...

As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories of places that I have known a...

Dilli Ab Door Nahin

Adventures of Rusty

Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas brings together, for the very first time, Ruskin Bond's fa...

The moaning war siren started to blow urgently, silencing the valley, setting hearts aflutter. So...

'When I came to live in Mussoorie just over fifty years ago, I lived in Maplewood Lodge, a cottag...

''Remember the old road, The steep stony path That took us up from Rajpur, Toiling and sweating A...

The residents of Fosterganj are shocked and speculations run rife as the Fairy Glen Palace myster...

Rusty Jab Bhag Gaya

DescriptionA little boy goes riding on a boat. He has been told many fearful stories of seamonste...

Roads to Mussoorie is a memorable evocation of a writer's surroundings and the role they have pla...

Ruskin Bond, Indias most loved author, puts together his favourite sayings, aphorisms and quotati...

A series of biographies dedicated to the legends of India.''Charitavali is a series of biographie...

Landour Bazaar

THE PHANTOM COACH

Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is dissatisfied with life in the declining European commun...

It was hardly the time for homespun philosophy, as a pretty young thing was trying to take a self...

IN GRANDFATHER'S GARDEN

September 1911. The sleepy little hill-town of Mussoorie-British in its garb and Indian in itssou...

When the light came on again, she had vanished.Who had kissed me in the dark?As no one came forwa...

The Daffodil Case

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Rusty Ki Ghar Wapsi

The India that I love does not make the headlines. TheIndia that I love comprises the goodwill an...

And the land stretched out before me, and the years fell awayAnd I was a boy againAnd the friends...

A grandmother telling the tales of the past to her granddaughter; a mysterious kiss from a strang...

'No one heard the stealthy padding of a panther approaching thedoor, pushing it wider open. But s...

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¿ Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not.¿ Why it is easy to be happ...

Where does beauty live? Where should we travel to find it?Is a dawn without birdsong still beauti...

For over six decades now, Ruskin Bond has been entertaining and touching the lives of countless r...

In the middle of the night, I woke to a loud rattling sound. A rat, perhaps? But no. As soon as I...

Veh Awara Din

As the light came on, I saw the cat standing at the foot of the bed, tail erect and hair on end. ...

'The umbrella was like a flower, a great Blue flower that had sprung up on the dry Brown hillside...

Did you see him shoot a tiger?' I asked. Oh, many times,' said Mehmoud. 'A tiger a week-that was ...

Panther's Moon

It was the custom of this household that no crime or misdeed ever went unpunished and there were ...

'There is nothing to keep me hereOnly these mountains of silenceAnd the gentle reserve of shepher...

The House of Strange Stories - 3rd

'If you live in the hills of India, it is only a matter of time before you meet a ghost…'V...

And the roar came back to him, calling him, calling him forward: a roar that meant there would be...