Days of Innocence - Stories for Ruskin Bond

Author: Eminent ContributorsPublisher: Roli BooksYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 143ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174361995 DescriptionThis collection of short stories was conceived as a festschrift in honor of Ruskin Bond, whose popular and enduring tales of childhood display so much simplicity, understanding, and compassion.This collection of short stories was conceived as a festschrift in honor of Ruskin Bond, whose popular and enduring tales of childhood display so much simplicity, understanding, and compassion. Under the auspices of Namita Gokhale Editions and Roli Books, a group of writers spent a weekend of creative dreaming and introspection at Mussoorie and Landour in the Garhwal hills. These days of innocence, spent in Ruskin's company, are documented by a series of dramatic photographs by famed photographer Harmit Singh and by this highly personal and intense anthology on themes of childhood and adolescence. The first of a continuing series, Writer's Retreat volume I is a sp