A Gathering of Friends

His tales of India are fresh yet age-old; the scents, sights andanguor of the Indian scene have rarely been captured with such ease and authority''-National Herald ''Ruskin Bond has a magnificently simple and immensely moving style, compassion and aove and reverence forife''-Indian Express ''A writer of great gifts.''- New Statesman One of the country''s foremost writers.''- Sunday Chronicle ''The country''s best-loved English-language storyteller...seldom disappoints his readers... If you want the...pleasures of a good story, you can''t go wrong with Bond.''-ive Mint One of India''s best-loved storytellers.''- The Hindu The twenty-one stories in the book are the greatest pieces of fiction written by Ruskin Bond. Chosen by the author himself, from a body of work built over fifty years (starting with his award-winning first novel, The Room on the Roof, and ending with Tales of Fosterganj) this collection includes well-known masterpiecesike ''The Night Train at Deoli'', ''The Woman on Pl