Old Times’ Sake

Literature & Fiction

Old Times’ Sake

By: Ruskin Bond

295.00

  • ISBN: 978-93-6156-686-8
  • Pages: 150 pages
  • Published: February 2025
  • Format: Paperback
  • Imprint: Rupa
  • Language: English

‘All this is pure nostalgia, of course, but why be ashamed of it? Nostalgia is simply an attempt to try and preserve that which was good in the past… The past has served us: why not serve the past in this way?’


There is something about the past that makes us hold on to it as if it were tangible—the innocence of childhood, the joys of a simpler life—or perhaps it’s just the rose-tinted lenses through which we view our memories that make us feel this way. Undeniably, though, there is a magic to a time long gone that one is powerless to resist.


Old Times’ Sake is a collection of Ruskin Bond’s writings for the nostalgia nuts, bringing to life the old-world charm of the times we reminisce about with our loved ones. Take a trip down memory lane with stories about love, loss and friendship, told in Ruskin Bond’s inimitable style.



Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children’s books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of 23, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.


Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.



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