{"title":"Adult Indian Short Stories","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-best-of-ruskin-bond","title":"The Best of Ruskin Bond - Paperback","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe weekends of Ruskin Bond fans just became even more exciting \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAre you a fan of Ruskin Bond? Have you been trying to compile his best works and read them along? If yes, then this book, 'The Best of Ruskin Bond' is the perfect solution for you. These exemplary stories from the legendary author are here for the taking, all compiled in a single book and provided with some of the best excerpts ever written. This consolidated volume brings together selected prose and poetries that have been written by the award winning author, Ruskin Bond. During his entire career, he has captivated readers across the world with his writing talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExperience the best of four decades of Ruskin Bond’s career in one book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver four decades of writing, this book consists of some of his best work to date. Backed by an endearing collection of essays, beautiful excerpts from different stories, serene poems and short stories, this book finds a way to create a unique literary landscape. And what could be a better to spend your leisure time by?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis anthology is here to stay \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrab hold of this consolidated anthology which has selections from all of Ruskin’s major books and includes his classic novel, ‘Delhi is not fair’. With many more beautiful stories to read from, this book is a one stop solution for all Ruskin Bond fans. Readers in general will get drawn towards his simple writing style which is articulate in nature and focuses on the significant details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuskin Bond, who started his exemplary career with ‘The Room on the Roof’ at the age of 17, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in the year 1957. With over 500 short stories to his name and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, he is regarded as one of the literary stalwarts of the 20th century. He was awarded with the Sahitya Academy Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31992195842114,"sku":"","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9780140246063.jpg?v=1600790966"},{"product_id":"night-train-at-deoli-and-other-stories","title":"Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdorned with 30 beautiful stories from Ruskin Bond, the book Night Train at Deoli and other stories effortlessly makes in to the must-have, must-read list of every reader. Simple, heart-warming and thought-provoking stories will take you to heavenly grounds of Dehradun and Mussoorie, where the author himself has spent his childhood and teenage years. The stories in the book speak of simple folk, who live in the technology untouched valleys and hills, the lush greenery and little crowded markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThough the book does not contain any suspense or murder mystery, it is sure to feel you connected with the author's idea of beauty, his anguish, joy and pain. Ruskin Bond's Night Train at Deoli offers you a perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life and fills you will serenity as you learn about the beauty in simplest pleasures. A book filled with small doses of heart melting stories- a book that's loved, admired and recommended by many.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuskin Bond is one of the most popular writers of India of British descent. His first novel was The Room on the Roof, which he wrote at an age of seventeen and earned the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in year 1957. His works can also be seen in text books of almost every school. Apart from novels, he has written several essays, children books and poems. In 1993, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award, while Padma Shri in year 1999. 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An army man at the border has become so accustomed to speaking over the wireless that he ends every sentence with ‘Over!’ And in the title story, a cop drags a dead cow from Vinayak Rao Patwardhan Road to the adjoining Bapu Road, since the latter is so much easier to spell.\u003cbr\u003eFrom real-life stories about Javed Akhtar, Sahir Ludhianvi and Kuldip Nayyar to tales set in Kashmir, in the hinterland, in the modern megapolis and on the LoC, from anecdotes of love and betrayal to fables of courage and conviction, this is an enthralling collection available in English for the very first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32146484789314,"sku":"","price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/27.jpg?v=1745741493"},{"product_id":"when-darkness-falls-and-other-s","title":"When Darkness Falls and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn When Darkness Falls, Ruskin Bond emerges yet again as a master storyteller: A deceptively effortless style, an eye for the extraordinary in seemingly humdrum lives and a deep empathy with his characters—even when they belong to the supernatural realm. We meet the war veteran Markham whose deformation ends in tragedy; Susanna, the merry widow who loved each of her seven husbands to death and Kundan Singh, the reckless rake whom women find irresistible. There are also fascinating stories from the author’s childhood, about the eccentric characters and memorable animals of old Dehradun. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Darkness Falls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Garden of Memories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ghost of Garden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReturn of the White Pigeon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoung Man in a Tonga\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Writer's Bar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTopaz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusanna's Seven Husbands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Amorous Servant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMonkey Trouble\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eColonel Wilkie's Good Hunting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Family Ghost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiving Without Money\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32476512190530,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/51w1j8cc54L._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1752314398"},{"product_id":"time-stops-at-shamli-other-st","title":"Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a collection of short stories from the Indian writer, which takes the reader on a journey through Indian culture. Bond is also the author of Angry River, The Room on the Roof and Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32476512321602,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9780140128420.jpg?v=1601220675"},{"product_id":"season-of-ghosts","title":"A Season of Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA superb storyteller who keeps his readers in thrall’—Statesman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is said that if the smell of the Himalayas creeps into a man’s blood, he will return to the hills again and again. Master storyteller Ruskin Bond shows how this love may persist to death and beyond. The agents of the supernatural may be gentle like the fairy folk in ‘On Fairy Hill’ or malevolent like the well-dressed diners of ‘The Prize’; humorous like the very proper witch, Miss Bellows, in ‘The Black Cat’ or tragic like the haunting Gulabi in ‘Wilson’s Bridge’. Bond aficionados will meet familiar faces in other stories and be thrilled by the gripping mystery, ‘Who Killed the Rani?’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis exciting collection, animated by the brooding presence of the Himalayas, establishes Bond as a connoisseur of the mysterious and macabre.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32476512518210,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9780140287844.jpg?v=1752314397"},{"product_id":"for-now-it-is-night","title":"For Now, It Is Night : Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHari Krishna Kaul, one of the very best modern Kashmiri writers, published most of his work between 1972 and 2000. His short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore - with an impressive eye for detail, biting wit, and deep empathy - themes of isolation, individual and collective alienation, corruption, and the social mores of a community that experienced a loss of homeland, culture, and language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn these pages, we will find: friends stuck forever in the same class at school while the world changes around them; travelers forced to seek shelter in a battered, windy hostel after a landslide; parents struggling to deal with displacement as they move away from Kashmir with their children, or loneliness as their children leave in search of better prospects; the cabin fever of living through a curfew...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrilliantly translated in a unique collaborative project, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor Now, It Is Night\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebrings a comprehensive selection of Kaul's stories to English readers for the very first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40426366632002,"sku":null,"price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/files\/81XOy8M17EL._SL1500.jpg?v=1748616198"},{"product_id":"roman-stories","title":"Roman Stories - Hardback","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"TruncatedContent\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-mce-tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"Formatted\"\u003eIn 'The Boundary', one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. 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