Ruskin Bond Best Books

The Blue Umbrella is one of Ruskin Bond's most well-known works. Vishal Bhardwaj's film adaptation received the National Film Award for Best Children's Film in 2006.

The narrative is set in a Himachal Pradesh hamlet and revolves on Binya, a young rural girl who is given a blue umbrella in return for her good luck charm leopard claws Jewellery.

Her umbrella is well-known in town, and a shopkeeper shows interest in acquiring it, only to then be turned down. 

Ruskin Bond's first book, The Room on the Roof, was written when he was seventeen years old.

The book is about an orphaned Anglo-Indian kid called Rusty who resides with his caretakers in Dehradun, and it is the first of Ruskin Bond's famous writings.

Rusty escapes his guardian after being punished for going to the market and starts a new life with the support of some friends he met there.

In return for meals and a little bedroom on the roof, he gets another job teaching English to the child called Kishen.

Ruskin Bond's collection The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories offers 30 outstanding short stories.

The lovely landscapes of Dehradun and Mussoorie are depicted in this collection of short tales.

The tale of a kid who meets a girl on the Deoli station platform is told in 'The Night Train at Deoli.' Will he ever track her down?

"A Guardian Angel" is a film about a youngster who is adopted by a sex worker. 

After residing in a variety of tiny Himalayan communities, Ruskin Bond created Rain in the Mountains, a compilation of tales, pieces, essays, and poetry.

It displays the majesty of Himalayan environment, complete with chirping songbirds, shimmering blue sky, and glistening streams, and it strikes a special chord with only city dwellers.

Once Upon A Mountain Time, How Far Is The River, Sounds I Like To Hear, and After The Monsoon are only a handful of the novels in the series.

This book is ideal for calm reading and contemplation

As the author notes in the preface, Delhi Is Not Far is a plotless book about the lives of several lower-middle-class people in the little hamlet of Pipalnagar.

The novel's protagonists include a writer, a hairdresser, an orphans, a child, and others who all want to make it big in life by travelling to Delhi.

However, due to a variety of hurdles, the most significant of which is money, none of them make it to Delhi in the end.

This book illustrates the struggles of middle-class individuals as well as their interdependent relationships with those around them. 

'I was standing on a forested hill outside a tunnel not far from Kalka when I first spotted a train.'

A green and black engine blasted out of the darkness with a piercing whistle and a tremendous explosion of steam.

"A dragon!" I was ecstatic. "A dragon has broken out from its cave!"

Travelling by train through regular villages and towns as it emerges from a tunnel or a forest is unrivalled in its intrigue. 

A Book of Simple Living by Ruskin Bond is a personal notebook in which he chronicles the many little occurrences that make up a balanced living with oneself, the physical universe, colleagues, relatives, and strangers.

He gives us a peek into his everyday life and shows the importance of simplicity.

The book's goal is to quietly convey one message: don't let nature's beauty go unnoticed, devalued, or forgotten since it is the most basic and pure kind of beauty.

Allow all of one's peripheral neurons to be tickled.

Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra is a compilation of fourteen enthralling tales about Ruskin Bond's life.

The author's semi-autobiographical tales span his boyhood to the present.

He travels from Java to India, stopping in Bombay & Delhi along the route until arriving in the Himalayas, where he starts to ponder on the author's time there.

The author speaks about his parents, colleagues, and other important figures in his life.

Ruskin Bond's dedication to his favourite city Mussoorie, that he has inhabited for forty years, is called Roads to Mussoorie.

He begins the book in reverse (rather than onward), asking the reader to read the chapter before moving on.

Ruskin beautifully describes his many excursions to, from, and around Mussoorie before delving into the everyday scandals that engulf his life and friends in the (not so) calm hill town.

Rusty, the Youngster from the Hills follows Rusty, a curious and innovative youngster who is a fake counterpart of James Bond, through his early childhood to his teenage years.

In this well-known work, Ruskin Bond attempts to recall and recreate his childhood in the Himalayan foothills, where he spent time with his grandparents.

The stories in this book range from having a pet python to avoiding German bombardment during WWII to seeing ghosts, and it is one of his most popular works among both children and adults. 

The Children's Omnibus by Ruskin Bond is a collection of some of his best-known stories, wonderfully illustrated for both kids and adults.

Even though the bulk of these stories take place in the hills, they appeal to individuals all around the globe.

This version includes Grandfather's Private Zoo, which was published around twenty-five years ago.

Other stories include Angry River, The Blue Umbrella, The Road to the Bazaar, Ghost Trouble, Cricket for the Crocodile, and Dust on the Mountain.

While Ruskin Bond does not believe in ghosts, he claims to see them all the time—in the woods, at a pub, among a throng outside a movie.

It's no surprise, however, that in A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings, a compilation of paranormal stories, he makes the supernatural seem completely natural, making it more difficult to dismiss.

The memorable A Face in the Dark, set in a pine forest outside of Simla, starts the book, and Night of the Millennium, situated in an abandoned cemetery, closes it.

Bombay has become Mumbai, Calcutta has become Kolkata, and Madras has become Chennai.

I don't mind if Bond's name changes to Bonda as time passes.' With these words, Ruskin Bond opens yet another great collection of essays, fiction, and poetry.

Ruskin Bond brings us into his house, his property, and his life with his unique sense of humour and interpretation of ordinary events.

This story has monkeys, wild boars, a flower-phobic aunt, an eccentric cousin who believes he is the famous cricketer Ranji, and the brilliant seven-year-old Gautam, and is an engaging read for readers of all ages.

The classic Angry River is filled with drama, beauty, adventure, and poignancy.

The plot revolves on Sita, a little girl who lives on a remote island with her grandparents.

With rich greenery and breathtaking vistas, the island is breathtaking. They each have their own thatch cottage.

When Sita's grandma falls unwell, her grandfather, a fisherman, decides to leave the island with her and take her to the hospital by boat.

Sita is left alone for a few days as her parents wait for her.

A timeless gem about friendship and growing up from a talented storyteller.

Instead of just dipping his toes into the icy waters of Dehra, this tale follows Rusty as he plunges into an exhilarating new world, plunging his toes into adulthood.

 As he and Kishen return to the city, Rusty learns that his prized room is no longer his.

Undaunted, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes him throughout India's beautiful slopes, establishing new homes and new friendships in his own unique manner. 

H.H. is the Maharaja of Mastipur's spoiled, greedy, and beautiful widow.

She lives in a huge old house in Mussoorie with her dogs and servant, Hans, accepting and rejecting companions, drinking excessively, and fending off her impulsive kids who are waiting with braced breath for their wealth.

Seasons change, hotels shutter, movies close, and visitors depart the hill station never to return, yet H.H. stays unfazed.

Her antics annoy Ruskin, an old acquaintance who can never totally distance himself from her.

Since his life as a youngster, Arun has subtly been infatuated with Susanna, his perilously appealing neighbour, who turns into his companion notwithstanding the wide distinction in their ages.

However, Susanna has a soft spot for becoming hopelessly enamoured with some unacceptable men.

Throughout the long term, Arun looks as Susanna becomes infamous as the joyful widow who bounces starting with one marriage then onto the next, abandoning a path of dead spouses. 

Time Stops in Shamli is another famous book by Ruskin Bond. It is a collection of short stories.

Each of the stories mentioned in this work is unique in its own way, yet they are all equally captivating.

The short story 'Time Stops at Shamli,' which is part of the book, is about a little town named Shamli, where the train from Delhi to Dehradun makes a five-minute halt.

A rail route passenger who is interested in this location will have the chance to study it when his train stays at the station for a longer period of time due to rail line troubles.

It is stated that if the Himalayan scent gets into a man's blood, he would return to the slopes again and again.

Ruskin Bond, a master storyteller, demonstrates how affection may last till death and beyond.

The powerful's experts may be delicate, like the pixie society in 'On Fairy Hill,' or vengeful, like the sharp-looking burger establishments in 'The Prize,' or comical, like Miss Bellows in 'The Black Cat,' or devastating, like the disagreeable Gulabi in 'Wilson's Bridge.'

Ruskin takes off from his life experience school in the slopes when he is eight years of age and goes to live with his dad in Delhi.

His time in the capital is spent perusing, heading out to the films, paying attention to music, and strolling and conversing with his dad — an ideal presence for a curious and profoundly inventive young person that closes unfortunately all too early.

Ruskin Bond's accounts have captivated and hypnotised perusers for a really long time. 

Each season is an affection season. Furthermore, during this wonderful season, feed your nostalgic heart with Ruskin Bond's best love and romance books.

This book is an aggregation of stories loaded with affection, warmth, and energy.

It will go on you on a train outing with stops like fixation, anguish, satisfaction, closeness, and others.

The Eyes Have It and The Girl from Copenhagen are two of the most notable stories in this assortment.

Straightforward people have essential lives and become hopelessly enamoured in basic ways in his works.