An excellent presentation of story ...................... enjoyed reading it..........

Here's what Mr. Bond is offering youAnother mixed bag of different flavoured shorties... ranging from a couple of pages to 20-25 pages each. Sweet, sour, childish, mature, scary, funny.... all tossed in a kaleidoscope!

I did not live entirely alone…there were lizards on the walls and ceilings — friends these — and a large rat — definitely an enemy — who got in and out of the window and who sometimes carried away manuscripts and clothing. In school, I was told that Ruskin Bond is an Indian author. Today, I realise that the story is not that simple. Ruskin Bond is an Indian author, but he was a man of British descent. This made me spiral. What is the politics of an Englishman writing about India? What does it m

Of love, of innocence, of loneliness, of hills, of grandparents, of trees, bees and butterflies, of the rain, of the sun, of girls with big black eyes, of love-struck boys, of trains, of you and of me - That's what this set of stories is about. Ruskin Bond has woven magic into words that are definite to send the reader into a time warp and beg for the romanticism of the old days to make its appearance again. How I wish !

Long time since I loved a short story collection so. Such homely cosy stories and loved the simple narration. Will surely read more of Bond.

Ruskin Bond is one of those few writers who makes writing look ridiculously easy. Brilliant.

There are books, then there are classics. There are writers, then there are authors. A step above them you have the story tellers-AnonymousBut then there are people who surpasses even the story tellers and touches the most private of memories and suddenly every understanding of yours about life seems pointless and every calculated steps you have taken in life seems a mistake . You realize in this game of life you have traded something priceless , for some glass pieces ,the world made you believe...

The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories is a collection of thirty different short stories by Ruskin Bond. The reason I loved this book is that this book has everything in it, this book covers a wide range of genres. Whether it's a funny story or spooky folklore or old times leopard-pather stories, you will find everything here. Some stories are heart touching love stories or perhaps they are all love stories, of one kind or another. Like always his writing quality is top notch and the endings...

Night Train at Deoli is a nice collection of short stories of Ruskin Bond. These are the stories of the time author spent as a child and teenager in the foothills of Himalayas i.e Dehradoon and Mussorrie.All stories are short,very simple and yet touches your heart. No drama, no suspense, no revenge only real life experiences written in very beautiful simple words. I like the way he describes the nature and emotions of people.Magical writing style!Looking for simplicity, must read this book.

"Kite-flying was then the sport of kings. There was time, then, to spend an idle hour with a gay, dancing strip of paper. Now everyone hurried, hurried in a heat of hope, and delicate things like kites and daydreams were trampled underfoot." I read this book on my trip back home in India this summer, and it was good to experience the mountain air vicariously while the temperatures around me soared.This is a collection of 30 stories, some of them a tad too short, and hence hardly made an impac

Night Train at Deoli is a collection of 30 short stories of Ruskin Bond. The stories are simple and thought provoking and pertain to the time the author spent as a child and teenager in the foothills of Himalayas i.e Dehra and Mussorrie. Most of the stories run into 2 or 3 pages. There are a couple of them which were part of my English syllabus while I was studying in school. As Bond himself mentions in the preface of the book, his stories are not about espionage, mystery, suspense or murder. Ra...

Ruskin Bond stories have been a delight to those who wish to savour a sip from the wine of bygone era! His stories, mostly set in the small towns in the hills( Dehra,Shimla) serve as a retrospective of the past. Ruskin Bond is most famously known for his very good psychology for school going kids and that is what probably reflected in his stories. A bonding of a lonely school school kid, Arun and a mysterious lady who showers her motherly love( The Woman on Platform No.8), The old spinster who f...

Quote from This Book that I Loved - Once You have lived with Mountains for any length of time, you belong to them, and must Return Again and Again.- The Leopard Wow!! What a great experience reading Mr. Bond's short stories or as he says - 'Perhaps there is too much of me in my stories, and at times this book may read like an Autobiography'. This was my first book by Ruskin Bond but my god, it feels like that I've been reading him since ages, The poetry in his writings, the way he makes those w...

Being a Ruskin Bond fan I always look forward to reading his books. This book was on my wishlist for a long time and finally bought it on my recent book haul to Flora Fountain, Mumbai. You can find the detailed review here http://www.haloofbooks.com/night-trai...This book includes 30 short stories; each story is beautiful in its own way. This book is a bag of every emotion. Each story will connect to your heart. You can find humorous, quirky, heart touching, horror as well as mature stories in t...

A very nice collection of short stories by Ruskin Bond. Most of them seemed autobiographical in nature, written from his own childhood and his youth days. Though the theme of the stories was quite similar (childhood and people who touch your lives at some point in tume and move on) what stands out most in them is the author's love for nature. Ruskin Bond has a knack for describing nature in a very unique way. His description of Dehradun and Mussoorie are just spectacular and has the ability to t...

Ruskin Bond is a lovely English writer. He describes indian life and our country's natural beauties, in great detail with wonderful intricacy. His Rusty series for children was authentic and very meaningful. His books make you feel like your close to him and he's whispering his thoughts, personal views to you. He paints beautiful pictures in your mind, making you literally live in the world of his words. A simply excellent writer, one of my favorites!!! :P: :D

Nostalgic and so pureeee.Something worth reading again and again.

You know the feeling when it is drizzling outside, the raindrops make splattering sounds against the roof, you are seated inside, with a warm blanket over yourself, sipping a hot cup of tea and reading a good book? Ruskin Bond's writing feels like that. It's ethereal, delightful and makes you miss places you have not even been to. The vivid imagery that Bond evokes in the reader's mind, speaking of towns in the foothill of the Himalayas, is something that only a writer with an extraordinary tale...

Sometimes there is a collection of tales that has no purpose other than to simply be read and felt. There are no lessons, no morals and no conclusions. At the beck and call of a master storyteller, each word follows the next in a way that makes you feel as if you are walking a lush hill path strewn with fallen leaves and wild flowers. In these stories, life flows in a meandering manner, pausing every now and then at moments of beauty and poignancy. They contain love, compassion and longing, all

"People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves." — Ruskin Bond (T...