#Ruskin Bond Collection

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Ruskin Bond - Best Selling Children Story Books Collection (Set of 4 Books)

Ruskin Bond – Best Selling Children Story Books Collection (Set of 4 Books)

Price: (as of – Details) From the Publisher This collection of books by Ruskin Bond is a treat for children who love the author’s work. The combo contains the story books i.e. The Blue Umbrella, Tales from the childhood, From the cradle of Nature and Stories of Wisdom. The combo has a flavour of humour, wisdom and much more. The stories are set in foothill of Himalayas and describe the life of…

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Hello

Do you have recommendations for collection of short stories?

Yes, here are few I've enjoyed:

Landour Bazaar by Ruskin Bond: all stories from, set in, and inspired by his time in Landour near Mussoorie. They're so lovely and so kind

Also, while we're on Ruskin Bond: Time Stops at Shamli, The Night Train at Deoli, and Season of Ghosts

Dark Satellites by Clemens Meyer: about people living on the margins in Germany, particularly in what used to be East Germany

The Dangers of Smoking Bed by Mariana Enriquez: spooky, gothic horror from Argentina. All stories are set in Buenos Aires, all are centered on women, and all of them definitely are creepy

No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini: fiction on living in Mumbai, especially what the migrant, working-class encounter with the city is like

Antarctica by Claire Keegan: her debut collection, and a good place to start with Keegan. The language is tight but so, so clinical, and the stories have so much to unpack

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman: partly fantasy, partly gothic, partly urban legend, partly just funny. It's a really varied collection and one I had fun reading because of the expanse of it

In A Free State by V. S. Naipaul: about colonial and postcolonial exiles and migrants; what rootlessness does or means on a daily basis; very moving

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btw suggest me some suspense bookss i would love to read if u will tell me tp

Ahakajqhkqhaka

The perfect murder by Ruskin Bond (I LOVE RUSKIN BOND'S WHOLE COLLECTION)

The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ( I LOVE FRANZ KAFKA'S BOOKS TOOO)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown

The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (cottage core aesthetic ka hai)

Now recommend some classical romantic novels

I should've need to enhance my genre

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Thanks so much for the tag a while back @bluesundaycake, and also @nv-md, and @lumosatnight, and @schmem14 as well! I'm so sorry for the late reply,, I've been catching up with my mentions now that my semester is over 😅

10 books to get to know me:

I am the messenger by Markus Zusak

I love so many of Jodi Picoult's books I think I've read almost all,, I'll just mention The Storyteller and House Rules

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella

The Sound of Sch by Danielle Lim (also love her book Trafalgar Sunrise so much,, and I have a signed copy!!)

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (again, he has many amazing books)

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon

The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali

Apart from these, I love short story collections, and poetry (mostly in Hindi and Urdu) as well,, short story collections I love include Dust on the Mountain by Ruskin Bond, and Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit by Wodehouse

Tagging @julcheninred @curlyy-hair-dont-care @triggerlil if you'd like to do this (sorry if there's double tags!) and anyone else who wants to as well~

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The Whistling Schoolboy by Ruskin Bond

There’s something magical about revisiting childhood through stories, especially when they come from the pen of Ruskin Bond. The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life is a delightful collection that takes readers on a nostalgic journey, bringing back memories of schooldays—those carefree moments of joy, curiosity, and a hint of mischief. A Peek into the Book This collection…

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My First Ruskin Bond Collection A Set o

Price: (as of – Details) Puffin Chapter Books is a series of short, illustrated books for young readers. From India’s favourite storyteller comes a curated collection of ten short, charmingly illustrated stories. Each book offers a splendid introduction to Ruskin Bond’s world through endearing characters and deliciously written tales in his unique style. Heart-warming, funny and spirited, this…

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#BookReview: Ruskin Bond, a well-known modern Indian writer of British origin, is renowned for his prodigious contributions to children’s literature. His outstanding literary talents earned him the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award.

Throughout his distinguished career, he has written over 300 short stories, essays, novels, and more than thirty fascinating children’s books. His autobiographical writings include “Scenes from a Writer’s Life” and “The Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal.” The first dives into his formative years in India, while the latter is a compilation of diary entries, essays, and incidents detailing his freelance writing path.

“The Gold Collection” is a meticulously crafted collection of the author’s best-loved stories. This book takes readers on a pleasant journey through a diverse and vivid narrative, with locales ranging from foggy Himalayan slopes to lovely Indian countryside. The author’s novels capture the core of human experiences, depicting people, locations, and emotions with a remarkable warmth and beauty that appeals to readers of all ages. Each story transports the reader to innocence, wonder, and contemplation, leaving an indelible impression.

The book’s narratives span from the simplicities of rural life to the intricacies of human relationships. The author’s characters are wonderfully brought to life, each with their distinct voice and a story that remains in the reader’s mind long after the novel is finished.

The stories weave a complex tapestry of emotions, embracing the human spirit’s pleasures, sufferings, and triumphs via their excellent descriptions and sharp observations. Nature’s beauty is praised throughout the book, and the author’s love of the natural world infuses the stories with the tranquility and peace found in even the most mundane scenes.

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Day - 3

Feb 6, 2023

Monday, 8:05 AM

Hey Guys, 😃 welcome back and a warm welcome. Today I will give you some reviews about this Murder mystery.

First : Subhodip Chakraborty :-

"The book is an easy read and you can finish reading this in a few hours or a day to the most. You will certainly appreciate the taste of Ruskin Bond that made this collection of some of the interesting stories in this book".

Second: Jyotsna Dadlani :-

"Ruskin bond normally famous for short stories. Perfect Murder is a story of a husband who wants his wife to be killed without leaving any clue. How he plans and how his wife kills the murderer , is the story."

These are some reviews which I want to share with you all☺.... I hope these reviews will help you a lot .

Some preferences I want to give you all for reading:-

The Wind on the haunted hill

Face in the Dark and other haunt

Whispers in the dark : A book of spooks

The Blue Umbrella

The room on the Roof

A flight of Pigeons

I hope that all you are like my blog . 🥰

With lots of love and happiness ☺☺

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How to Live Your Life

Ruskin Bond's honest and humorous writing style, as well as beautiful illustrations and personal photos, make this book a go-to for advice, motivation, and strength. Plus, it includes a handwritten letter from the author to the reader, urging them to follow their dreams. Don't miss out on this must-have addition to your book collection.

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The room had no soul except them.

Only one tubelight was on, yet the darkness being hardly dispelled. The room was particularly large, the benches widen enough and spacy aisles for two individuals to stand by each other. Although the room required four functional lights, yet Tapan intentionally turned only one, maybe to cherish the darkened lone room with Ruchi?

It was a coincidence, a sheer action of Destiny, that the reading room in the end of the jam-packed Library was empty. It was 9 at night and Tapan, nevertheless, he saw this as an opportunity to replicate the fictional scenes as he read in several of novels (and secretly Ruchi was of the same plan). He came with 'It starts with Us' in his hand and sat (quite close) with Ruchi, while she was midway completing some Ruskin Bond collection. They striked their normal conversations as they did, yet both were nervous because they knew, they were paving it as a way for 'something else'. After some time, quite long, she asked Tapan in an assertive manner, 'Could you put your book the other side?'

'why not?' Tapan had been reading the book for a few minutes, knowing Ruchi was growing uneasy as she looked at him and he didn't looked back.

'Close your eyes, Tapan. And it's not a joke, I am serious' she said commandingly yet her voice trembling in nervousness.

He close his eyes and she waved her hand in front of his face to make sure he's not acting. Tapan was having freaking adrenaline rush. After a few minutes, he felt a warm hand resting on his thigh and suddenly a drop of sweat dripping off his forehead. 'Its just to hard to stay this way!' he murmured in his head.

Next, he felt a breath quite close his lips. And off course, in the locked darkened room, it was her who's breathe he just felt and the very moment he thought all this, they locked this very delicate portion of their face. He was puzzled first, and then chose to stay closed eye, and then rewarding the initiative Ruchi took. A typical first timer kiss. And as naïve and beginner it could be.

She then stopped, out of her nervousness, and they opened their eyes, still yearning for that magic to commence again. He looked into her eyes, and his right hand resting on her neck and then brushing into her hair, as she kneeled down for another lock of souls.

'Someone's coming' Tapan said alarmingly, as they felt thugs of someone approaching. In matter of seconds they switched places, acting not to know what just happened a certain while ago, sitting at separate benches and blushing.

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hi c what are the most absolutely readable books you've read

recency bias notwithstanding, here you go —

Beartown trilogy by Fredrik Backman: easily one of the best things I've read; about an ice hockey town and how the sport is both toxic and redeeming for the town; he does people beautifully and I have cried multiple times on public transport while reading this

Figuring by Maria Popova: it looks at how creativity is a collective human project and how the best things/the truth about the world is almost always uncovered when people encounter other people and ideas. The book has galaxy brain energy and it made me feel all fuzzy and soft about the human project after reading it <3

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe: about the IRA and the Troubles in Northern Ireland and its bearing on politics now; how violence of this sort lives on in societies and cultures long after it has ended; how cultures deal with (or fail to) morally dubious histories. There's just so much to think about here!

Appliance by J. O. Morgan: a short dystopian novella about this machine that is basically teleporter. The book follows how its growth and occupation of the society is basically inevitable; makes really chilling and smart observations on authenticity and scientific progress along the way

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen: follows the Lambert family at the end of the 1990s and through them, about everything up, socially and economically, with American culture then. Really well written and one of Franzen's best

The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond: a coming-of-age story he wrote when he was 17; somewhat autobiographical and captures his life between England and India as a child and teenager among friends and family

There but for the by Ali Smith: about the chaos that develops around a family and particularly a man when said man goes into one of the rooms at a dinner party and locks himself in it; he becomes a sort of lightning rod for a lot of politics and rhetoric, and the book shows this in really witty ways. There's great wordplay and endless puns and you'll have fun while reading it

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb: about what war does to women, and more specifically about how rape is and should be tried as a war crime; it's part journalism and in part an exploration of how we can make things better on this front. Very harrowing but very very good

I will also direct you here for some comfort books, and here for some more fiction i really like

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A massive thrifted book haul that I've been waiting on since a week was delivered yesterday. I'm so excited for all of them. I've never read any Hilary Mantel before, so I decided to start with 'Fludd' and 'The Giant O'Brien' on the advice of @footnotes.and.tangents in one of his stories on Instagram. A couple of Joanne Harris' darker tales that I nabbed for a ridiculously low price; Michael Faber's 'The Crimson Petal and the White'- another writer who's completely new to me, but I read a review somewhere about the lyrical writing in this book, and I wanted to give that a try.

I picked up another Ruskin Bond! I've been reading 'Maharani', and though the story is very droll and enjoyable, the parts where he writes about nature and the mountains rise above the rest, if that makes sense. I want to read more nature writing by him. Also, I want to see my country through his eyes. 'Rain in the Mountains' is a collection of essays and poems, I believe. It sounds very much like something I'd love.

The Thomas Wharton is a bit of a roundabout tale. I went searching for 'Icefields' but it was nowhere to be found. I happened upon 'Salamander' however, and the premise really intrigued me. I have my fingers crossed for this one.

I heard wonderful things about 'Feel Free', Zadie Smith's essay collection, and it was available at a steal, so of course into the pile it went, and came to live with me.

The last is a little novella, around 70 pages long, from the Faber Stories collection. It's Robert Aickman's 'The Inner Room'. It sounds spooky and gothic and that's so perfect for me. I'll start with this one as soon as I finish up my current reads.

I love seeing sunlight fall on my bookshelf. It's one of those little things that makes me happy.

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 HARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN BIRTH ANNIVERSARY 27th Nov

Intro

Who was Harivansh Rai Bachchan?

Early life

Work and Career

Achievements

Intro- Nature has given us all same brain. It depends on us how we use it. Some people make history by using it. Every person has their capabilities and skills. Writing and the poetic field have always been fortunate with some great minds. William Shakespeare, Ruskin Bond, Rabindranath Tagore, Tulsi Das, Kabir Das, Rahim, Gulzar, Suryakant Tripathi, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, etc. contributed their best in the art field. One of them was Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

 

Who was Harivansh Rai Bachchan? – Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a great Indian writer and poet. He was born on 27th November 1907 to Pratap Narayan Shrivastav and Saraswati Devi. Thus Nov. 27th is celebrated as his birth anniversary. He was born in Allahabad (Prayagraj now) Uttar Pradesh, India. He started using his name Bachchan in his poems instead of Shrivastav. From 1941 to 1957, He taught In the English department at Allahabad University, and after that, he spent the next two years at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University completing a Ph.D. on W.B. Yeats.

Early Life- Harivansh Rai Bachchan was the eldest son of Pratap Narayan Srivastava and Saraswati Devi Srivastava. His father worked as a clerk in the office of the Pioneer newspaper. He was fondly referred to as “Bachchan” a sobriquet that would stick with him for a lifetime. His childhood was wrought with financial troubles which instilled in him a desire to rise above his situation. Very early on, the young Harivansh Rai developed a penchant for reading and spent long hours in the library, voraciously reading all the books that were at his disposal. 

Work and Career-  A grieving Harivansh Rai Bachchan took up various ill-suited jobs until he was offered a lectureship at the English department in Allahabad university. This opportunity proved favourable to develop his craft in poetry. While he is widely regarded as a poet, he was also a gifted translator, demystifying the writings of WB Keats, William Shakespeare and Omar Khayyam for the Indian audience. He based his PhD thesis on the works of WB Keats and occultism. additionally, he also wrote extensively on politics, love and philosophy. Harivansh Rai Bachchan also worked at the All India Radio Station and later at the Ministry of External Affairs, translating documents in Hindi. His career as a poet rose to fame after the publication of his renowned 146 verse poem “Madhushala”. Creating a fan-frenzy, Madhushala would always be demanded by the audience during his poetry recitals. He also published his 4-part autobiography, which was well-received and later translated into English by Rupert Snell. In the collection of his 30 poems, the last poem titled “Ek November 1984” was based on the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

 

Achievements- Bachchan's work has been used in movies and music. For example, couplets of his work "Agneepath" are used throughout the 1990 movie Agneepath, starring Amitabh Bachchan, and also later in the 2012 remake Agneepath, starring Hrithik Roshan. and recently in the TV Serial Ishqbaaz. His famous writings are Madhushala, Madhubala, Madhukalash, Sopaan, etc. “Never live like a flower, for you shall be shattered as soon as you bloom; live like a stone if you so wish, for one day you shall turn into a god”, was a quote given by one of the stalwarts of Hindi literature, Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Celebrated as the pioneer of the Chhayavad movement or the romantic upsurge movement in the 20th century, Harivansh Rai Bachchan has a collection of 30 poems to his name. His writings traversed various themes such as man’s need for freedom, tussling with the orthodoxy of religion, love, and dependence, and unequal societal power structures. His poetry is a testimony to his unmatched talent, rich in its imageries, and lyrical beauty and doused in a streak of rebellion. Regarded as the “romantic rebel”, he evoked passionate and wild enthusiasm from his audience, through his renditions. This blog covers the life story of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, the man who truly had his way with words.

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Exploring Ruskin Bond Books

Introduction I’m currently reading “The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life” by Ruskin Bond. Ruskin Bond books have a unique charm that transports readers to a simpler time, filled with the innocence and adventures of childhood. This particular collection of short stories takes me back to the charming days of school life. Bond’s writing is simple yet evocative, so each story…

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All Time Favourites for Children

Price: (as of – Details) A keepsake edition with 25 stories.Beautiful illustrations accompanying the stories make it a fun readEngages middle-school students–an essential book to be stocked in librariesA collection of Ruskin Bond’s best stories with endearing characters–hand-picked by the author himself. All Time Favourites for Children celebrates Ruskin Bond’s writing with stories that are…

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Emancipation and social justice

One of the most striking aspects of the whole project is that one can conclude by stating that the emancipatory value of the basic income is greater than its monetary value. This arises primarily from the fact that for most villagers money itself is a scarce commodity. In gaining the basic income, people gained a source of monetary liquidity, enabling them to avoid using expensive credit and having to borrow so much at seriously high rates of interest.

There are also emancipatory effects on the status and agency of women. The fact that the basic income was individualized and unconditional enhanced the agency and identity of women, and they themselves recognized that it gave them additional strength in decision-making. In the villages where SEWA was active, collective action helped women gain more traction in village life.

In short, the evidence is strong that the individualized payments resulted in women and other vulnerable groups, such as the disabled and elderly, having more independence, more voice and more equitable treatment within the households and within the village communities.

There is another aspect of the emancipation that derives from the community coverage of the basic income, which is what might be called a social multiplier effect. Put simply, because others are sharing in the economic security, the overall effects for individuals are more positive, because optimism spreads and social norms and expectations evolve.

Emancipation is linked to the Indian idea of Swaraj, of self-rule or self- reliance. As Tilak famously asserted, ‘Swaraj is my birthright, and I will have it!’ Gandhi’s idea of Hind Swaraj means more than political freedom. It means being in control of one’s work, undominated by exogenous forces. This sentiment has had its counterparts elsewhere, perhaps most notably in John Ruskin’s celebrated essay, ‘Unto This Last’. It is an abiding human value.

From emancipation to transformation

The most important conclusion is that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’. It is this which makes the basic income potentially transformative. While the individual effects, on living conditions, nutrition, health, schooling, economic activity, agency and so on, were all major in themselves, the overall effect was transformative, in the sense that constraints on economic dynamism were weakened, inducing feedback effects, while the emancipatory outcomes

were likely to lend local communities a developmental energy that the alterna- tives of targeted, selective subsidy schemes could not hope to achieve.

What is perhaps the most transformative outcome of all was the impact on debt and savings. The basic incomes helped families to reduce their debt and to increase their saving. But the key is that the emancipatory value of the basic income exceeds the monetary value because it gives individuals and families vital liquidity, and probably access to liquidity possessed by others, with which to confront shocks, hazards and the simple uncertainties of life. The ability to avoid or reduce dependence on usurious moneylenders and landlords, and in some cases escape from bonded labour or naukar relationships of exploitation and oppression, should be counted as among the most transformative aspects of all.

It allowed families and individuals to focus more on gaining control over their lives and becoming more economically productive. In this way, emanci- pation boosted economic growth, in the spirit of Swadeshi and Swaraj.

We have seen how emancipatory effects spilled into development effects. This is consistent with findings in other parts of the world. People who feel a sense of basic security not only feel more free but become healthier (Marmot and Wilkinson, 1999), more productive, take more entrepreneurial risks, have a longer planning horizon and act more responsibly, in large part because they feel more in control of their own lives.

Concluding reflections

We initially feared that the actual level of the basic income would be too low to have a major series of effects on work and labour. However, we soon realized that the liquidity effect was likely to mean that the real value of the money was greater than it seemed and that it could unlock constraints to create mini- multiplier or transformative effects through the influence on work and labour.

Overall, the effects were positive, reducing the extent of short-term labour migration, changing the nature of child work, raising economic opportunities for women, curbing naukar labour, and leading to a shift from casual wage labour to own-account farming and non-farm economic activity. The money helped households to buy more productive assets, which helped to increase economic security as well as raise incomes.

There are also indirect effects to bear in mind, such as the impact of improved health and nutrition that make work and labour more feasible and less onerous. And one should not ignore the possibility that by providing a steadier, more predictable income, basic incomes reduce the adverse shock of temporary periods of unemployment. Households are also less likely to default on debt repayments and thus are less likely to fall into an asset loss cycle.

We believe the effects of the basic income on the pattern of work and labour were positive. Overall, there was an increase in economic activity and thus a beneficial effect on economic growth and incomes. 

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what's crazy about this for me is that the basic income given was only one third of their normal yearly income