Braving Mussoorie’s Madding Crowd

Category Literature & Fiction
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-5333-805-3
Pages: 232 pages
Date: 1st February 2020

ABOUT THIS BOOK

There was an old man at Landour
who wanted young folk to laugh more;
so he cooked up this book,
and with laughter they shook
as they rolled down the hill to Rajpore.

In this rib-tickling anthology, Ruskin Bond brings together funny stories, humourous articles and comic verse. These hilarious encounters—from a lunatic who escapes the asylum to watch a cricket match to a goat that goes berserk in a posh drawing room—written by renowned humourists such as Stephen Leacock, Jerome K. Jerome, C.A. Kincaid and, of course, Ruskin Bond himself, are guaranteed to make you smile, chuckle, snort, giggle and laugh out loud!

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

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 twenty-three, 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.