By Ruskin Bond

Autobiographical sketches and tales from India's best-loved author in English. For over 4 many years now, in terms of innumerable brief tales, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in existence and in paintings. This selection of essays and episodes from his journals is, in his personal phrases, "a social gathering of my survival as a freelance'. The author's early forays into the literary magazines of the Fifties and '60s are defined within the first a part of the ebook, besides a few examples of his paintings on the time. The sections that stick to comprise extracts from an unpublished shuttle magazine he stored through the '60s, episodes from the highways on which he used to be a widespread traveler, and vignettes of lifestyles in Mussoorie, prior and current. With understated humour and compassion, Ruskin Bond files the fascinating eccentricities of pals and buddies (a former princess cheerfully passionate about demise and disaster); the silent miracles of nature ("New moon in a red sky'); life's little joys (the scent of onions frying) and its fleeting regrets. Nostalgic and heart-warming, filled with knowledge and grace, The Lamp is Lit presents a desirable glimpse into the lifetime of "our own resident Wordsworth in prose.

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