Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-14-400095-4 |
No of pages | 111 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Penguin Books |
Published Date | 26 Oct 2005 |
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademie award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademie, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landor near Mussoorie.
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Delhi Is Not Far is one of Ruskin Bond's finest novels about a small town in India and its aspirations. Through its characters, Bond explores the vagaries of life in a small town and paints a vivid picture of their lives. Through this book, in an almost poetic manner, Bond takes his readers on a journey like never before, to a town named Pipal nagar.
Through the eyes of Arun, a struggling crime writer in Pipal nagar, Ruskin Bond reveals the plot of Delhi Is Not Far. In the dusty old Pipal nagar, big things rarely happen. There is not despair but there is a sense of resignation in the air. The other protagonists in the story are Deep Chand the barber, Pitamber the cycle rickshaw driver and Aziz.
These characters are all bound together by a deep desire to go to Delhi and lead the lives of their dreams. Deep Chand hopes to have a modern saloon where he may give the Prime Minister of the country a haircut. Pitamber on the other hand wants to own a motor rickshaw and Aziz will be satisfied by a junk shop at Chandni Chowk.
Arun, meanwhile, seeks inspiration to write that one brilliant blockbuster which will propel his career to great heights. He seeks solace and love at unusual places. He meets a young prostitute Kamla whom, he finds, is wise beyond her age. He finds inspiration in an epileptic young boy called Suraj who oozes optimism despite his terrible condition.
Masterfully written in his inimitable style, Ruskin Bond gives a memorable story in Delhi Is Not Far. The New edition of the book was published by Penguin India in 2005 and is available in paperback.