My School on the Hill
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"After class hours, or whenever I was free, I would slip into the library and sit among these hundreds of books--reading them, arranging them, cataloguing them, or simply being with them. Here I made many lifelong friends."
As we grow older, many of us long to reconnect with our school friends, while others are fortunate enough to carry those friendships through life. In the midst of adult responsibilities, we often look back on our school days and reminisce about simpler times. The bonds formed in those years remain some of the most cherished relationships we have, offering comfort even on the hardest days.
In My School on the Hill, Ruskin Bond presents a collection of short stories that capture the beauty, excitement, joy, confusion, and love of childhood. From cricket matches in open fields to Boy Scout adventures, and from classroom moments to the quiet refuge of the school library, this book offers something for anyone seeking a nostalgic return to those formative years.
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond is one of India's most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals, edited anthologies and books for children. The Room on the Roof was his first novel, written when he was seventeen. It received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received many other awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Many of his stories and novellas including The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons and Susanna's Seven Husbands have been adapted into films.
Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie. His other books with HarperCollins include These are a Few of My Favourite Things, Koki's Song, How to Be a Writer, The Enchanted Cottage and How to Live Your Life.
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